Copy with Same Mark Value

Revit
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Hi All,

I am trying to copy mechanical services from typical floor to floors above. We have around 20 typical floors. When I copy from typical floor, grille numbers (Mark value) changes randomly. Is it possible to change duct, grille, dampers… to match the typical floor values. Once that is achieved, I can run dynamo and use - find and replace to change Mark value reflect the floor. To make it Clear
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this is the grille mark value for level 2, when I copy to level 3, it changes to
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I want the level 3 grille to have same value as level 2 once I achieve that I have a dynamo script to find and replace 2- to 3- so that the grilles will have identical value
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This is what I was trying.

find replace grille tag.dyn (16.6 KB)

Thanks in advance

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You could use Element.CopyToLevel from Clockwork to do the copying for you. Then you’d just have to take the original element marks and modify them according to your naming convention.

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Hi Nick,

We have grouped FCU Duct and grille together, when we copy elements the mark value updates and I dont want that to happen. I want it to stay the same, so that I can run find and replace node to replace 3-xx to 4-xx

Regards
Avinash

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After you copy Element X using the method Nick gave you, get Element X’s mark value, and adjust the prefix/leading number based on the number for the level you copied it to.

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Worked out easier way of doing this. Copied mark value to label and copied items to different level. Mark value changed but system stayed the same. All I did then was copy label to mark and then did a dynamo graph to find and replace for different levels. Thanks for the input guys. will try your way too.