When using the Copy/Monitor tool to monitor elements for collaboration and coordination among teams, consider the following tips.
- Performance: Use Copy/Monitor to monitor changes to the smallest number of elements required to coordinate efforts across teams. Overuse of Copy/Monitor without thoughtful planning can result in performance degradation.
- File names: After you link a model to the current model and establish relationships between elements for monitoring, do not change file names for the linked model or the current model. If you do, the monitoring relationships cannot be maintained.
- Grids: Do not associate grids with a scope box until after you have copied the grids from a linked model to the host model. You cannot view scope boxes that are defined in a linked model. You cannot use Copy/Monitor for multi-segment grids.
- Columns: When using Copy/Monitor to copy columns from an architectural model to a structural model, use the Split Columns by Levels option. For example, if the architect adds columns that span levels 1 - 4, the engineer can split the columns at each level. This design avoids problems with the analytical model. See Specify Options for Copy/Monitor and Copy/Monitor Parameters for Columns.
- Floors: Use Copy/Monitor to copy a floor from an architectural model to a structural model. To make it a structural floor, edit the floor’s properties in the structural model to specify its Structural parameter. See Instance Properties Reference.
- Shape-edited floors: If you use Copy/Monitor to copy a shape-edited floor (or slab), the copied element is flat. Use the Slope Arrow tool to slope slabs when possible, or use a separate slab in each model. See Sloped Surfaces.
- Walls: To ensure that you copy all walls in the model, use a selection box and a filter in a plan view, or use a 3D orthographic view. For troubleshooting information about copied walls, see Walls Copied to a Structural Model Are Inaccurate.
- Levels: Use Copy/Monitor to copy levels from the origination model (typically the architectural model). Monitor other elements only if required to meet your design requirements.
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Spaces: If you link an architectural model to an MEP model, use the architectural model to place spaces in the MEP model. After linking the architectural model, open a view in the MEP model and select the linked model. Click Modify | RVT Links tab
Element Properties panelType Properties. In the Type Properties dialog, select Room Bounding. You can then reference elements in the linked model when creating spaces.
For more information about room boundaries and spaces in linked models, see the following topics: