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solidsnakeala

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i am workin on revit 2014,

i am working on a 3 story hospital building and i made the ceiling plan with all the light fixtures on the same file .. now the problem is that our manager decided to seperate the electrical work than the architectural . So we opened a new electrical template and linked our original file to it . THEN we tried to copy and paste all the light fixtures to the same place but they cant find the hosts !! I dont know why.... 

anyone can help ,  Do i have to do the lighting of the whole hospital again from scratch ?

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If the light fixtures are hosted (and they are) then you need to own the host.That is what copy monitor is for....so you have a copy of an element in your file.

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I tried copy monitor ... most of the objects can be copied but the ceiling which is my host can not be copied or monitored !! Why ?? 

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I don't use systems so I was not fully aware that you can't copy monitor a ceiling.  You will have to place your own.  It might be the generic one that is there on startup.... it has no properties other than being a plane that Revit identifies as a ceiling.  Or you can copy the ceilings from the other file and paste them in.

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