Create and manage design options

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in this video, you'll learn how to create design options sets and design options.

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You'll also see how to control the elements in the design options

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and create dedicated views for the design options.

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Design options allow you to consider multiple

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design alternatives in the same rabbit project,

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we'll take a look at a simple example here

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to begin on the manage tab.

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In the design options panel, you can click design options or on the status bar.

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There's also a design options button and some other design options controls.

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When design options are active,

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clicking design options, opens the design options dialog

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first, you need to create an option set

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So under option set I'll click new.

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An option set is the area of the building where

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you are going to have a multiple design alternatives.

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You don't necessarily want to have entire buildings in an option set.

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You just want to have specific areas of a building.

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For example, we'll take a look at different entryway design options here.

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When you select an option set,

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you can then create new design options.

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So I'll click new under option

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and now I have options set one

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and I can rename it. I'll click rename

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and I'll change the name to entry

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and then I'll click OK.

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And now we have an option one and an option

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to and you can also rename the design options.

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So right now option one is the primary option

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and I will click close to close the design options dialog and now we can see the

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other controls are active on the status bar as well as in the design options panel.

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The first thing I'm going to do

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is select the wall here at the top and then switch to

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the managed ribbon and I'm going to click add to set.

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And the reason is because I'm going to be modifying

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this wall

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as I'm looking at the different design options,

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this opens the add two design options,

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set dialogue and I can choose the design options set here in the drop down.

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In this case we just have one

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and then I can choose the design options

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that I want to add the wall too.

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So I'm gonna leave both of them selected and then click OK

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next I'm going to change the active design option to option one

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and I can do that here in the design options panel or on the status bar.

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Now I can model

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and add elements that are a part of this design option.

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So I'm simply going to create a few walls

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and ai will create a rectangular style entry.

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I'm not gonna pay too close attention to the exact dimensions

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but I am going to split this wall

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and then use the trim extend to corner to clean up these walls

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and then I'll click modify in the command and now I have the design option one entry.

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I'll switch back to the manage tab and now I will change the active design option two,

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option 2.

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Next I will model a wall for option two.

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This time I'm going to use the start end radius arc tool

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and once again I will clean up

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the wall corners here

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and then I'll click modify to in the command.

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Now when I switch between

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the design options you can see the alternative designs that we have modeled

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additionally, we can create dedicated views for each design option.

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For example,

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I will duplicate level one.

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I'm going to select duplicate view, duplicate

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and then I'm going to rename it,

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I'm going to rename it level one, option 1

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And I'll rename

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the other one

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to level one. Option 2.

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Now for option one,

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I will open the visibility graphic overrides dialog and since

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we are using design options there's now a design options,

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tap

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and for the option one view,

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I will set the design option two, option one

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and then I'll switch to the option to view

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And I'll set the design option two, option 2 and then click. OK,

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now we have two views for one view for each design

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option and we could continue by creating sheets and placing the

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views on sheets if you needed to create some type of

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output where you're going to be presenting these design options.

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But as you can see you can control the active design option to see what's visible

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and then you can even choose the view and have a dedicated design option in each view

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at some point you need to arrive at your final design and you

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can go into the design options dialog and make that design option.

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The primary design option, for example, if we decide to go with option two,

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what we can do is so we're actually editing option one.

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So I'm going to click finish editing and then we

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can select option two and under option click make primary

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And it is now the primary design option,

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you'll likely get a warning because there's

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a closer relationship between the primary design option

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and the main model that we can dismiss that warning by clicking in the dialogue.

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And then once we're ready to accept the primary design option,

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we can select the option set and then click accept primary under option set.

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And what that's going to do is it's actually going to delete all

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secondary options in the design options set as you can see here.

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So I'll click accept primary.

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And we're also going to get a dialogue stating that we can delete the dedicated

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design option views and we can make sure that's selected and then click delete.

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And now we are no longer using design options since we just had the one set.

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So we can click close. And now that primary design option is a part of our main model