About Copy/Monitor

When collaborating on a project with other teams, use the Copy/Monitor tool to monitor and coordinate changes to important elements of the design.

Use the Copy/Monitor tool when the following statements are true:

• The architectural team, the structural team, and the engineering team use Revit software.
• Each team must be informed of changes to levels, grids, and other elements.
• The teams will link models to work on the same building design. Each team maintains its own edition of the model and uses Revit software to develop the design for their discipline. Each model is linked to the other models to share information about changes to monitored elements in the building design. (For an alternative method, see About Copy/Monitor and Workshared Projects.)

Sample workflows:

1. The architect designs the architectural model.
2. The structural engineer creates an empty structural model and uses Copy/Monitor to copy levels and grids from the linked architectural model, providing a starting point for the structural design.
   1. The architect links the structural model into the architectural model to monitor levels and grids.
   2. Whenever the architect or structural engineer moves or changes a level or grid, the other team member is notified of the change.
3. The mechanical engineer creates an empty mechanical model and uses Copy/Monitor to copy levels from the linked architectural model, providing a starting point for the mechanical design.
   1. Whenever the architect moves or changes a level, the mechanical engineer is notified of the change.