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this is a tutorial on how to merge the

Chicago hotel Revit files so once you

open up both Revit files the exterior in

the core Revit file the first thing that

you want to do is double check that the

core file is all set so something that

you need to check is to make sure your

floors have holes in them for the

elevator shafts and stairs as well as

your ceiling so you want your ceilings

to have those holes as well and then the

bottom floor should be cut out

in addition so once you are all set with

that what you want to do is hide any

exterior walls and other elements that

you don't want to copy over to your

other file hi this okay and then once

you know that your ceiling is right

beneath the floor you can then hide that

floor and then just keep that lower one

so this is kind of everything that you

want to see and what I'm going to do is

I'm going to highlight everything and go

to copy to clipboard

once I do that I am going to minimize

this view and open up my exterior Revit

file the exterior Revit file to get it

all set up you want to be in 3d view

while you're in 3d view please turn it

to hit in line and make sure that you

hide your site and everything else you

just want to see your building and then

you want to hide two sides of your

building so I'm going to work with my

front side and then I'm going to hide

that and I want to hide my right side

that's going to be the easiest to copy

it so I'm going to hide and then I'm

going to rotate it around I'm going to

hide this wall all right and then I'm

going to go to my front view to get

ready to then copy in my floor plan now

you will click the paste button just so

you know you have other options if you

want to try and floor plan but I found

doing an elevation is the easiest way to

check into

minimize things going wrong so I'm just

going to place from clipboard and I'm

going to let it load if anything pops up

just hit okay once it is done loading

Revit is pretty smart and it kind of

found where it should go so that's

actually looking like all my levels are

lined up so I'm going to put it exactly

where that blue dotted line is however

yours mine may not be the same so you

want to try to place it as close as

possible to where you want it to go zoom

in here and click then before I ever hit

the finish button I'm going to zoom out

and I'm going to check that it's kind of

lining up where it should go I'm going

to rotate around again it might move a

little bit of slow and I'm realizing

it's not quite hitting my exterior wall

so I'm going to click on the move tool

and I'm going to move that straight over

to my exterior wall so now it snaps on

it and that looks pretty good from here

and I'm going to hit finish if anything

pops up that's ok all right so now I can

kind of check it out in 3d view look

like it went in pretty well and now your

next steps are to work on fixing up your

floor plan so when I go onto my 4 ply

mode I might need to extend my floor out

maybe extend my walls and push some of

my furniture out so that's kind of

you'll start editing that and then when

you are ready to copy up all your levels

you'll go back to your 3d view you are

going to hide anything that you do not

want to copy up to all the levels so

that is my X to your walls any stairs or

elevator shafts that go all the way up

I'm going to start hiding that these

exterior walls I don't want to see ok so

I'm going to hide anything that I don't

want to copy all the levels

okay so that's everything that I want to

copy up so now I can highlight copy to

clipboard then I'm going to open up my

level 3 something's going on a little

bit there so I'm going to go to level 4

and I'm going to check out level 3 in a

second and then I'm going to paste and

I'm going to line two selected views and

I'm going to go 4 through 12

because level 13 is my top floor which

will have something different so I'm

going to do all those levels and hit OK

and then you just have to wait and let

it process all that and once it is done

and is copied I'm going to go to my 3d

view to check it out and it looks like

it did a really good job it looks like I

could have even copied up this one my

walls looked a little bit off so I'm

going to do that one by hand and just

copy it the same way I just did so I'm

just going to do this copy to clipboard

go to my level 3 so I'm going to a line

to current view let that go and then

once that is done you can then go to

each level and if need be kind of extend

your walls move furniture or change the

floors as needed okay so now looks like

I have a complete hotel building going

once you are done with this please save

this Revit file as a brand new name save

as and I'm going to save this as Chicago

hotel merged file today's date and then

my initials and I'm going to save that

then I can share this with my partner

maybe something went wrong with theirs

or they're a little bit behind I'll

share it with them and then you will

start working on your first floor or top

floor depending on which one you are

assigned to and that concludes this

tutorial