What procedure is applied by Revit users for monitoring elements within host project?

What procedure is applied by Revit users for monitoring elements within host project?
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The one thing that must be very clear to Revit users is that they have to utilize a different set of tools for separately monitoring elements within the host model and linked model. In Revit, users can conveniently establish a monitoring relationship individually between elements of linked models and current projects. And every time a monitored element is changed by Revit users building design software Revit promptly issues a warning against it, which has to be addressed by them during the coordination review.

Generally monitoring relationships are established by users between pairs of such elements which are similar.

The procedure applied by Revit users for monitoring elements within the host project

  • For establishing a monitoring relationship between the elements of a host project (current project), Revit users are required to open a project.
  • After the project is opened in the building design software Revit, users are required to open a specific view that contains the elements, which they want to monitor.
  • For monitoring the elements in the host project users are required to use the tool which can be obtained by accessing Copy/Monitor.
  • The tool which is necessary for monitoring the elements of the current project is the ‘Use Current Project’ tool.
  • For accessing this tool Revit users are required to click Collaborate tab and then the Coordinate panel.
  • From the coordinate panel, users can easily access Copy/Monitor and after clicking it they can approach a drop-down menu that hosts the Use Current Project tool.
  • So users are ultimately required to select the Use Current Project tool from the drop-down menu for monitoring elements within the current project.
  • After that, they are again required to click Copy/Monitor after which they should be clicking Tools panel.
  • From the Tools panel, users can select an icon named Monitor.
  • Now users are required to select two different elements from the current project which can be monitored by them.
  • Once the elements are selected users are required to click Copy/Monitor tab then Copy/Monitor panel and they should finally click the icon which is named Finished.

If the above steps are successfully followed by users they can easily establish a monitoring relationship between elements.

  • Divya Dave

    Divya Dave is a Senior Manager with Tesla Outsourcing Services. An engineer and management graduate, she has been working with the outsourcing industry now for more than a decade. With a passion for writing, she writes on topics that provide an insight into CAD, BIM, and 3D Visualization services for the Architectural, Structural, and MEP disciplines. Her focus is to enable architects and engineering professionals in the AEC industry to adopt the right technology so as to increase their efficiency and profitability.


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Divya Dave
Divya Dave is a Senior Manager with Tesla Outsourcing Services. An engineer and management graduate, she has been working with the outsourcing industry now for more than a decade. With a passion for writing, she writes on topics that provide an insight into CAD, BIM, and 3D Visualization services for the Architectural, Structural, and MEP disciplines. Her focus is to enable architects and engineering professionals in the AEC industry to adopt the right technology so as to increase their efficiency and profitability.