Adding Elements to Option Sets

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You may or may not have elements modeled and ready to be added to an option.

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In this case, we have most of our elements modeled,

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but we need to make some new elements and then add them to an option set.

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The objective of this video is to start adding elements to the options, and the option sets that we have already created in Revit.

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We'll open up the architectural model to start.

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It resides in the recent files. I click on 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 the existing copy.

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Remember in the last video, we reset our starting view to this particular view, for ease of navigation.

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So let's zoom in to the front of the building.

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So let's start with adding elements to the building, front option set.

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We want to add the front wall along with the two adjoining walls,

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the two curtain walls where the windows are as well as the side.

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So hold the "CTRL" key down. The curtain walls might be a little bit difficult.

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So just make sure that you hover around it until you see the dashed blue line around the entire curtain wall.

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The sign, and also this adjoining wall.

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You can release the "CTRL" key as you pan around, and this adjoining wall.

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Now in our filters, we have six things selected, five walls.

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So the three walls and the two curtain walls, and one generic model, which is the sign.

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Down in the status bar, I have a button here to add the set,

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which will add the selected elements to the design option set of our choice.

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The two design options are listed here, building front and garden roof.

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This will belong to the building front, and we want to add that to both options in the set.

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Now, a warning appears that two elements were not automatically joined.

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So this joining option, we can look at this later on. Okay.

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Let's repeat the procedure, for the garden roof.

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But before we do that, Revit has a little bit of a quirk that when an element is in a design set,

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you can't create a new family type when you try to change it.

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So therefore, we need to create the new family type now before we add the element to the design set.

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So to do that in my project browser, I go to families, and under families,

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we have our roofs and our basic roof and here's our garden roof.

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Right click on garden roof and duplicate it. Garden roof two is the new garden roof.

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Right click on that and rename it. Then call it garden roof blue.

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Right click on garden roof blue, and go to type properties.

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In the structure, so click on edit for structure, we want to change the material for structure one.

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From the garden roof material that we created last time, I wanna look for something blue.

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So I type in blue in the search panel, and there's a blue solid which looks quite nice.

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Just double check your transparency set to 40 which are red material with set four as well. So that's fine.

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So click "Ok". "Ok" once again. And "OK" once again.

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And now we have two families that we can use, for this garden roof.

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Now we can go back and add these elements to the garden roof design option set.

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Remember in the last video set, I hovered over until a wall was highlighted, and then I tap the tab key,

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and you notice that all four adjoining walls, the chains of walls are selected, and I click that.

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Now I hold the control key down, and I select the roof,

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and you notice in our filter, we have five selected.

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Let's just click on that filter, and yes, we have indeed four walls and one roof.

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Great. Let's add that to our set.

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We're going to add that to our garden roof set,

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and we wanna add it to all three of them. So click "Ok".

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Notice that we're still in the main model.

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And if I go around the main model, I can select a variety of objects like before.

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However, I can't select the objects that are in the design option sets.

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That's because my exclude options is checked, which is what you want.

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You don't want someone working on your design options when you're in the main model.

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However, if I uncheck this exclude options, then I can actually select options within the design set.

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It's a nice feature. However, it's recommended that you have the exclude options checked at most times.

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So now let's look at how we can actually modify these design options to show different variations to the client.