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DoubleW

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Our firm has a large project that's already under constuction.

All of a sudden the client has requested that two floor fitouts be swapped over - the First Floor moves to the Second and vice versa. It's not just soft furnishings, but meeting rooms, offices, laboratories, cool rooms, etc.

What would be the most efficient way to do this to minimise damage and headache? Our model is quite comprehensive, fully tagged, etc.

Thanks!

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WWHub

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Not sure there is an easy way.  You might try the following:

1. Open a copy of your model (new second) and:
2. ...delete everthing on the second floor
3. ...delete the second level
4. ...move the third level down to the second and rename the level as second
5. Do the same (new third) but move the level up
6. Now open a copy of your good model
7. ...delete everything on the second and third levels
8. ...from the now second floor plan in the 'new second' copy paste everything to your second floor
9. ... do the same from the 'new third'.

NOTE:   This will only fix annotations in plans - not sections and details.

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DoubleW

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With opening a new copy of the model, how do you avoid it doing damage to the central file?

Won't the copy be considered a local file and do damage to the central if it syncs while floors are missing?

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You can do this one of two ways if you have worksharing enabled.   When you open there is a checkbox for "detach from central",   That will give you a seperate file.  Or you can just do a save as from your local and pick the option "make this a central".

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