Reviewing warnings displayed for monitored elements is integral part of coordination review

Reviewing warnings displayed for monitored elements is integral part of coordination review Before going ahead with the description and explanation of coordination monitor warnings, I would like to through some light on coordination review. What is coordination review and why is it performed by Revit users? Well, coordination review is a quintessential step in multidisciplinary design coordination, wherein in BIM modelers link each other’s Revit models for communicating design information. When interdisciplinary Revit models are linked by modelers they establish a monitoring relationship between elements of linked and host model with the assistance of Coordination Review tools such as Copy/Monitor.

With the support of Coordination Review tools, warnings can be reviewed by Revit users between elements belonging to host model or else warnings can also be reviewed between the elements of both linked and host project.

A coordination monitor warning is only displayed by the software if modifications are made to the monitored elements. If in case a monitored element is either deleted or changed Revit immediately displays warning for informing users about the change.

On what situations warnings are displayed by Revit  If in case an original monitored element which is a part of linked model is changed then Revit displays warnings about it. 

Revit also displays warnings if changes are made to copied elements in the host project.

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Another situation for which warnings can be displayed includes the scenario when changes are made to both original monitored elements and elements which are copied in the host project.

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Apart from this warnings can be displayed if an original element belonging to linked project or host project is deleted.

For successfully addressing these warnings Revit users have to take necessary actions within Action column of Coordination review Dialog box. Actions such as Accept the difference, Reject, Postpone and Modify/Rename/Move etc can be taken by users for addressing warnings. For example if Revit users want to welcome a change in the design that is made by them during coordination they can go ahead with ‘Accept the difference’ action under Action column within Coordination Review Dialog Box. In this way depending upon the requirement of the change in the design they should take appropriate actions.