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A seemingly powerful BIM tool will not replace the need for professional supervision and
the standard of care implicit to respective disciplines in the building industry. Thus, there is no
substitution for the most important part of effective collaboration: communication. Without open
and honest communication, the coordination tools will discover conflicts, but the results may be
ignored, dismissed, or overwritten, to the detriment of the team’s progress.

Using the Copy/Monitor Command
Certification The Copy/Monitor command allows you to create copies of linked elements for better graphic
Objective control of the elements while maintaining an intelligent bond to the linked elements. If the
linked element changes in a subsequent iteration of the project file, the changes are detected in
the Coordination Review tool, which we will discuss next.
With the structural model saved from the “Using Linked Models” exercises, switch to the
Collaborate tab and select Copy/Monitor ➢ Select Link. Pick the linked architectural model, and
the ribbon will change to Copy/Monitor mode. Click the Options icon to open the dialog box
shown in Figure 6.16.

Figure 6.16
element tabs
available for
Copy/Monitor
in revit archi-
tecture

As shown in Figure 6.16, the Copy/Monitor Options dialog box in Revit is divided into five
tabs representing the elements available to be copied and/or monitored. For each element tab,
there is a list called Categories And Types To Copy. As shown in Figure 6.17, the Floors tab
lists the available floor types in the linked model in the left column and host model floor types
in the right column. Notice that any of the linked types can be specified with the option Don’t
Copy This Type. This feature can be used for quality control if your project’s BIM execution

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