Use the Copy/Monitor process and features

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in this video,

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you'll learn how to specify the copy monitor options and

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then copy and monitor elements from a linked model.

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You will also see how to perform a coordination. Review

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the copy monitor tools work great when you have elements in

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a linked model that you also need in your host model

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rev.

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It can copy those elements into the host model

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and then monitor any changes that may occur.

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Let's take a look at how this works.

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To begin switch to the collaborate tab,

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then in the coordinate panel,

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expand the copy monitored button.

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There are two options here.

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Use current project

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and select link

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for this example, click select link,

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then select the linked model.

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When you do

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rev it goes into copy monitor mode

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to begin on the contextual ribbon tab in the tools panel,

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click options.

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This opens the copy monitor options, dialog

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here, you can control the options for levels,

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grids,

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columns,

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walls and floors.

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You can choose a new type for each original type.

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As you can see in the table.

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The original type is listed on the left and the new type is listed on the right.

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You can expand the drop down in the new type field and choose a new

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type to use for each original type or you can select don't copy this type.

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Additionally,

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for each of the options,

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there are additional copy parameters at the bottom.

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For example, for levels you can specify and offset for the level,

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you can also choose to reuse levels with the same

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name and you can specify an option for reusing matching levels

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and you can also add a suffix or a prefix to the level names.

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There are similar options for each of these

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and you can specify all of those and then click OK

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to close the copy monitor options, dialog.

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Next click coordination settings.

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To open the coordination settings, dialog

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here, you can specify the options for several other categories,

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such as air terminals, communication devices, data devices and many more.

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For this example, select lighting fixtures,

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you can control the copy behavior and the mapping behavior.

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The copy behavior can be set to allow batch copy,

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which means that you can use the batch copy

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tool to copy all elements in that category.

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You can set it to copy individually where you

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can just copy individual elements at a time.

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Or you can choose to ignore the category altogether.

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For lighting fixtures, choose allow batch copy.

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Then for the mapping behavior you can choose to

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copy the original type or specify type mapping.

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When you choose specify type mapping,

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a type mapping option appears below the category.

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And then when you select that you see a similar table two as you saw before,

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you can choose a new type to use for each of the original types in the linked model.

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You can choose to copy the original type.

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You can choose to not even copy the type or you

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can select a type that is loaded into your host project.

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For this example, I'll leave each one set to copy original type.

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But as you can see you can get very detailed

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in how you copy all of the various family types

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for this example click save and close.

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Now you can use the copy tool to copy elements individually.

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And so we'll start with the grids, click copy

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and then in the options bar, select multiple

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and then press control and select all of the grids

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if needed. You can click the filter button to filter out additional elements

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that may have been selected.

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For example,

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I'll filter out the walls and make sure that just the grids are selected.

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And click. Ok.

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And now with the grid selected

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I will click finish on the options bar

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and what I do

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the grids are copied and you can also see monitor icons in the drawing area.

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That means that each grid is now monitoring

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the grid in the linked model.

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I'll deselect the grids

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and then I'll switch to the south elevation view

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here. I have level one and level two in the host project.

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So instead of copying them I can just monitor

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the levels in the link using the existing levels.

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So I'll click monitor

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and then I can select A level in the host project

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and then a level in the link.

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And now you can see the monitor icon again.

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I'll do the same thing for level one

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And we're now monitoring level one

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and level two.

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I'll click finish to finish the copy monitor operation.

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Next I'll open the level one ceiling plan view and

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we can see lighting fixtures in the linked model.

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I'm going to activate the copy monitor tool again by expanding

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copy monitor and clicking select link and then I'll select the link

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and remember we set the lighting fixtures category to allow batch copy.

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So when I click batch copy on the contextual ribbon tab rev,

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it will then batch copy the lighting fixtures

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and rev it displays the fixtures found dialogue and gives us an opportunity to

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go back and specify the type mapping if we haven't done so already.

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If you need to you can click specify type mapping,

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behavior and copy fixtures or if you already have click copy the fixtures

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and when you do

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rev it will copy all of those fixtures

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as well as begin monitoring them

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in this case since we copied the same type rev

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it is renaming the type and we see a warning

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stating that fact I'll click in blank space

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and now when I hover over a lighting fixture

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I can select it because it's now in the host model and there's now a monitor icon.

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I'll click finish again

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and now let's take a look at what happens when there are changes

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when you are monitoring elements in a linked model

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and you open up your host model,

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you may get a dialogue like this stating that

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an instance of a link needs a coordination review.

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You can click OK. And your model will open

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and then to perform the coordination review switch to

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the collaborate tab and in the coordinate panel,

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expand the coordination review button and click select link,

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then select the linked model.

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When you do

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the coordination review dialogue will open

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and this will show you

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the elements that are no longer in the same position

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in terms of the elements that you are monitoring in the linked model.

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So here we can see that there are lighting fixtures and as

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we continue to expand these branches we can see the specific elements that

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are in question and when I select one of the listings it'll actually

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highlight in the model and I can zoom in on that area.

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So here we can see that there is a lighting fixture in our host model that's

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monitoring a lighting fixture in the link and

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the lighting fixture in the link has moved.

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Now we can choose an action to take and when we

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click in the action field and expand the drop down,

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you can see the available options.

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We can choose to postpone the action and say we're going to deal with it later.

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We can reject it altogether or we can accept the difference

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or we can move the instance of the fixture or we can

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move the instance in our host model to match that in the link

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for example, I'll choose to move each instance

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and additionally, if you wanted, you can add a comment to keep additional notes.

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Now, when I click apply,

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you can see the lighting fixtures in our host model

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move to match those in the link,

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and then we can click OK to close the coordination, review dialogue.

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So,

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as you can see the copy monitor tools are a

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great way to copy elements in a linked model and

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place them in your host model and then track any

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future changes so that you are aware of that.