When multiple teams collaborate on a project, effectively monitoring and coordinating work can help to reduce mistakes and expensive rework. Use the Copy/Monitor tool to ensure that design changes are communicated across teams.
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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.
Best Practices: Copy/Monitor
When using the Copy/Monitor tool to monitor elements for collaboration and coordination among teams, consider the following tips.
Workflow: Copy/Monitor for Linked Models
This workflow describes a typical process to coordinate efforts between an architectural team and an engineering team working on the same building using linked models.
Copy Levels for Monitoring
You can copy levels from a linked model to the current project, and monitor them for changes.
Copy Elements for Monitoring
You can copy elements from a linked model to the current model, and monitor the elements for changes.
Copying MEP Fixtures
When mechanical engineers collaborate with architects on a project, the architect often creates the building model first, placing fixtures in the desired locations. The mechanical engineers then need to add details to the model, including connectors, wiring, piping, and so on.
Monitor Elements in a Linked Model
You can establish and monitor relationships between elements in the current model and a linked model without copying the elements to the current model.
Monitor Elements in the Current Project
You can establish and monitor relationships between 2 elements of the same type in the current model without copying the elements.
Specify Options for Copy/Monitor
Before you select elements to copy for monitoring, specify options for the element type. The Copy/Monitor options apply only to elements that you select after specifying the options.
Stop Element Monitoring
After implementing Copy/Monitor to monitor elements for collaboration and coordination among teams, you can stop monitoring one or more elements when needed.