Displaying Design Options

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With all the options set, it's time to create views to show our clients.

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In this video, I would like to create several different views with our different options and control them through visibility graphics.

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Then I'd like to add those views to different drawing sheets.

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So let's jump into Revit to see how that is done. Okay.

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As we've done previously in our recent files, let's open up the architectural model.

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It is a central model and a local copy will be made of it.

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And we want to override our existing copy of our local copy.

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Now, what we want to do is to make two different 3D views of our model,

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showing the different design options for the front.

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We've already set our 3D view design options as our starting view.

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So simply right click on that, and go to "Duplicate View", "Duplicate", for the new 3D view that we just created.

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Right click on that and go to "Rename," and call it "DO-front-red sign".

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For design options, Front Red Sign.

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In our Properties of the 3D view, enable the section box, so we can start narrowing down what's going to be displayed.

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Click on the section box that got enabled, and just close all four sides.

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So we're zeroing in on just the front of the model that we can show to the client.

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So adjust all six sides. That's great.

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Now, right click on that 3D view again.

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We're going to make another duplicate view.

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This one, we're going to right click, rename, and call it "DO-front-fancy sign".

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Okay. Now, what we need to do is to change the visibility graphics for this particular view,

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to ensure that it's set to the right design option.

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I could type in VG for visibility graphics, but this time,

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I'm going to go to the view tab, and here we have our visibility graphics.

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And you'll notice that now we have an additional tab at the end for design options, for the building front.

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I want to select this as my fancy sign which is the primary, nothing has changed.

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But it's always a good idea to change the visibility graphics to ensure that it's set to that particular design option.

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I'm going to enable my DO front red side.

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Once again, go to my visibility graphics, and under design options,

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I'll set this one to my red side.

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OK. Now you will notice that this one shows my red sign with a traditional 2014 Revit drive.

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Whereas my other view shows the fancy sign with the 21st Century Revit drive.

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Now we could repeat that same procedure for the garden roof.

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However, you may recall that we had created a garden roof 3D view.

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So double click on that to make it active.

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All I need to do is to hide the various levels.

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So I can do that by selecting one of the levels.

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And in my contextual tab under views,

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click on the light bulb pull down and we want to hide the category.

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Let's duplicate that view, right click, duplicate view duplicate.

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As before let's right click on it and rename it, and call it DO-Roof-Red for design options, roof red.

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Right click on that again. Duplicate view, duplicate.

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Right click once again, rename it, it gets a bit redundant, and let's call it DO-roof-blue.

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Once again, right click duplicate view and duplicate.

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Right click again and rename it, and we'll call this one DO-Roof-None.

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By naming them all DO they all come in alphabetical order.

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So it'll be a little bit easier to place them on a sheet.

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Now, we need to change the visibility graphics of this under design options

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for my garden roof. We'll set this one to no roof.

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For the blue roof view, go to our visibility graphics,

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and once again, set this to our primary view which is blue roof.

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And finally for the DO-Roof-Red,

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visibility graphics once again under design options, and set this to red roof.

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Great. Now, all we need to do is to create a sheet showing these different design options.

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In my project browser, I go down to my sheets category,

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Right click on sheets. All I want to create a new sheet.

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I'm going to use my horizontal title block,

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and go to my 3D views that are all in alphabetical order,

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and drag my two front views into my sheet.

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Ok. So here we're showing the two different design options for the front,

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and you can repeat the same procedure for the roof with the three options and then annotate the sheet as you see fit.

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Now, we can present this to the client and have them decide which design options they like. We'll look at that next.