From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

Copy/Monitor

From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

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Copy/Monitor

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- Just because the architect had levels that you were able to use as a guide, that doesn't mean the architect isn't going to run into some reason to change the elevation of those levels. That's okay. We're covered. With the copy monitor function, we can literally keep track of the architect's indecision by keeping a live monitor on their levels. When the architect moves one, we will get what's called a coordination alert, allowing us to move our level, ignore, or postpone the move. So let's jump into Revit. I'm going to open my structural-02 model. Notice that Revit keeps a display of the recent models that we have opened, or again we can browse to it, by going to where you're keeping your exercise files. Now open structural-02. If we zoom in over here, we'll see that we have an architectural level and we have our levels. We can monitor these. So, let's go to the collaborate tab, and let's make sure that we are in our South elevation. Remember in the project browser, we can scroll down the elevations and double click on South. If you're not there already. On the collaborate tab, notice there's a copy monitor icon. Click it. And let's use, select link. If you zoom out a little bit, you can hover over wherever your architectural model is, and notice that it will light up. So you can hover over any object, and pick it. Now we have a bunch of choices. We have all the levels in that we need so we don't need to copy any, but let's go to monitor. Click monitor. Now we just come through and we select the levels that we want to monitor. If we hover over here, Revit will by default select yours first and then the architect's second. So if I go to top of footing, I'm going to click it again. And it goes to top of footing. Now we get this little heartbeat monitor type icon here, which indicates that we have successfully monitored that level. Click here and then here. Now, click level 2, and then level 2, level 3, level 3. 4, and 4. 5 and 5. Roof and roof. And let's not forget our top of footing. So, top of footing, top of footing. If we select one that we've already done, Revit will give us a warning, saying elements are already monitored. I guess we really wanted to monitor that one. So close out of here, hit escape a couple of times. Now, make sure you click on the green finish edit mode button, click finish edit mode. Save your model. And we're good to go. So that's how you copy monitor levels.

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