Discover the process of copy monitoring in Revit Structure, a technique that allows for the transference of certain architectural elements from a background model into the primary model. This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to employ this method, highlighting its benefits in promoting accuracy and efficiency within the modeling process.
Key Insights
- The copy monitoring technique in Revit Structure is initiated from the collaborate tab and allows for the copying of elements from an architectural model into the structural model. This method saves time and ensures precision by eliminating the need to redraw grids.
- After the architectural grids are copied into the structural model, the 'maximize 3D extents' option is used to expand the grid envelope in all three directions, making it clearly visible in the model's elevation view.
- Cleaning up the copied grids is a crucial step to ensure clarity in the model. The grids, which may initially overlap, are adjusted by picking the zigzag line and creating an offset, resulting in a clean and clearly displayed grid system.
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Hello and welcome back to Revit Structure. In a previous video we had inserted our architectural background by linking. Now that we've linked our architectural background into our model, let's move on.
What we're going to do is we're going to explore copy monitoring. This is the ability to copy and monitor certain elements from the architectural background into our model. First thing we're going to do is we're going to go to the collaborate tab, pick it, go to the copy monitor tab, pick that one, and you see here we have two options, use current project or select link.
What we want to do is we want to select link because we want to pull the information directly from our architectural background. So copy monitor, select link, and you see the blue box around the architectural background. Pick that.
And what it does, it takes us to another option. This is where we copy the information from the architectural background that we will require to produce our structural model. So let's go to copy, pick it.
What we want to do is we want to hover over the architectural information that we desire to have in our model. First thing we're going to do is copy monitor grids. This is important because for one reason is that we are not duplicating our efforts by redrawing grids, and the second reason is it promotes accuracy in both models since we are picking up information given to us by the architectural or other discipline.
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So let's get started. Hover over the grid, pick it, and as you can see now it's highlighted as the information we now have put into our structural model. Let's go ahead and copy monitor the rest of the grids.
Let's zoom in on this area since it's a little tight. We can pick the grids. And again we're copying the information from the architectural model so we don't have to do that work.
It's already done for us. Okay, we've gone through and copied all of the grids that the architectural model has given us. We'll come up here back to the ribbon and we'll pick finish.
As you can see we now have all of the architectural grids in our model. Let's go ahead and right click on one of the grids. Go to select all instances in entire project.
What I like to do with this is I right click again and we have maximize 3D extents. What this does is it maximizes our grid envelope in all three directions, X, y, and z. Let's take a look. Let's go to one of our elevations.
Okay, as you can see we have our architectural elevation backgrounded into our model. Let's take a look at the grids. You can see that since we've gone with extending our 3D extents they are clearly visible above the architectural background.
As you can see we need to clean them up just a little bit since they do overlap. What we'll do is we'll pick the grid line and then the zigzag line. What that does is it gives us an offset.
What we'll do is we'll stretch that out a little bit and we'll go to the next one and we'll leave that one there. That one looks good. We'll go to the interior one, pick it, and you see it offsets to the left.
Let's drag it to the right and give the last one a little bit of room so we can move it also. There you go, we've cleaned that end up. Let's go over to the other end.
You can see we have just a couple that need a little bit of cleaning up here. Okay, we'll move that out and there you have it. You have a clean grid.
You can do that on the other elevations also since they will overlap in the separate instance of the elevation given and they will not be picked up when you do it here. We'll go to the other side of the building and again you see they're a little overlapping so let's clean these up a little bit. Pick the zigzag, stretch it out, again pick the grid, the zigzag, and stretch it out.
As you can see now we have a fairly clean looking model with the grids clearly displayed. Okay, back to this model. What we'll do is in this floor plan, level one, again we'll clean these up.
Pick them, stretch them out, again we'll pick this, zigzag, stretch, pick, zigzag, stretch. I think you understand where I'm going here so let's just clean this up and there you go. Pull this over and there you have it for that face.
Now we'll go to this face. Again the zigzag, well we don't want that one out there so let's go to this one and drag it down. Let's work into this one, again pick it, zigzag, clean it up.
There you go. Let's go to ZX and go to the full extents of our current model. Now you see we've got a grid system laid out both horizontally and vertically.
We're going to stop here and in the next video we're going to look at placing our elevations so we can get a horizontal layout for our model so we can start modeling it. See you in a bit.