2011 - Copy / Monitor - Odd Type Behavior

[saeborne]

Hi all,

I've linked in my structural engineer's model. I want to copy / monitor his floor objects that represent concrete column drops. Sounds easy enough.

Under Copy / Monitor options, I've set all of his floor families to be either "Copy Original Type."

So far so good. Here's where things get hairy....

So let's say he's got many floor objects titled "DROP 11" (these represent 11" drops).

Let's say I copy monitor a dozen of these objects, of the same type. The first one comes in fine... "DROP 11".

Every successive one comes in as a brand new type:
"DROP 11 1"
"DROP 11 2"
"DROP 11 3"
"DROP 11 4"
so on and so forth.

This doesn't appear to be correct behavior. Has anyone else encountered anything similar?

[saeborne]

Ok. I figured it out.

I created a little chunk of floor, in the structural model. One for each type that I wanted to copy / monitor. I then copy / pasted those little chunks into my model, to get structural's floor types.

Now when I copy monitor, the option defaults to the matching type, not "Copy Original Type."

Everything works fine now.