Copy elements

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Description

Batch copying of the current document's selected elements to the specified opened documents

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Using

For the plugin to work, at least two documents must be open.

The main window of the plugin is divided into two parts. The left side indicates the source document (from which copying occurs) and the elements available for copying, grouped into categories. For a quicker orientation among the elements, you can use the search bar.

Using the Set option you can save presets for further copying of element types. To do this, select the element types to be copied in the tree, use the  button to save a new set, giving it a name in the opened window. To save changes in the current set or delete the current set you can use the  and  buttons respectively. Sets can also be exported  and previously exported sets can be imported .

To the left of the element list are the following list control buttons:

 — expand all items in the list.

 — collapse all items in the list.

 — check all visible items in the list.

 — uncheck all visible items in the list.

In the right part of the plugin window there is a list of open documents into which you can copy checked elements. There are buttons next to the list that allow you to check all documents  and uncheck all documents in the list . Below the list, you can set copy options in case of matching names of related elements, types, filters or views. For each copying option in the plugin window there is a detailed description (when hovering the cursor over ). If you select the Default behavior, the items will be copied with a numeric suffix added.

Additional options are available below:

• Show guid of shared parameters — allows you to display guid of shared parameters in the list of items
• Suppress warnings — enabling this option will suppress Revit failure messages that may occur during the process of copying.

View log — opens a window containing the plugin work log in the current session. The log begins to fill up from the moment you select the source documents. Information from the log can be opened in the text editor "Notepad" or exported to Excel using the Open in Notepad and Export to Excel buttons.

Transfer elements — starts the procedure of copying checked elements to checked documents. At the same time, a copy progress display and the Cancel button will appear in the lower right part of the window, allowing you to interrupt copying.