The Copy/Monitor tool is designed for use with important elements of a building model to streamline coordination and collaboration on a project that involves multiple teams.
Use the Copy/Monitor tool to monitor changes to the following types of elements:
When monitoring walls, you can specify whether to monitor openings, including openings for doors and windows. When monitoring floors, you can specify whether to monitor floor inserts and openings, such as shafts.
The Copy/Monitor tool is not intended to be used with the following:
If you need to represent in-place elements from a linked model, copy and paste them between projects. See Copy Elements from a Linked Model.
When you use Copy/Monitor to copy an element from a linked model to the current model, the Phase Created property for the copied element is assigned to the Phase value for the current view. It does not inherit the phase assigned to the original element in the linked model. The Phase Demolished property is set to None. See also Map Phases Between Linked Models.