Working with design options

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After completing this lesson, you'll be able to understand design options, apply design options to duplicated views, and set a primary option.

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The objective domains covered are, 3.3, assign, display, and accept primary design options.

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Design options are essential in early design when evaluating different structural arrangements prior to committing to a preferred design option.

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Design options within Revit facilitate these requirements allowing the development of numerous options,

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and then the final selection of the preferred solution.

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Go ahead and open up the model 034-Working with design options.

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The model opens up in the 3D view.

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In this particular example, we're going to have a look at two different designs for the front of our building structure.

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Here, you'll see that we have a steelwork design primarily showing round, curved members across the front of the structure.

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So let's now have a look at some different design options.

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On the Manage ribbon, you'll note here under design options, we have an Active Design Options menu.

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And here we have two options.

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We have our curved steelwork, which is our primary preferred option.

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Or we have a second option, faceted steelwork.

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The Active Design Options menu can also be activated from the status bar.

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You'll note here that we have the same functionality.

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Let's first have a look at how we set up design options.

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So again, on the Manage ribbon, you'll note we have design options.

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Let's select Design Options.

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And you'll see here first, we have something called a option set.

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So, of course, there could be several options around the whole building structure.

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We might have an option for different roofing.

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We might have another option for the front of our building structure, another option for foundations.

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So the option set contains the options.

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Once we've created an option set, we can create individual options within that set.

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One of the options would always be a primary option, which is the preferred option.

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When presenting options to clients or stakeholders, it's quite useful to be able to present these on drawing sheets.

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So what we're now going to do is duplicate our 3D view and then present both options on the drawing sheet.

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In the Project Browser, right mouse click over the 3D view and Duplicate.

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I'm going to rename this and this one will be Reception-Option 1.

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And again, I'll duplicate that view again.

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And this will be Reception-Option 2.

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Ok, so I have my two duplicate views.

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To set the option active in the view, we first need to go into visibility graphics.

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To do this, select the View ribbon and then select Visibility/Graphics.

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When design options are active within a model, you'll notice we get a new tab, Design Options.

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And in the Design Options, you'll note here that we have our design option set, and then we can decide which one we want to present.

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So in this case here for option 2, this is going to be the faceted steelwork.

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And I can then go ahead and say "OK".

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Let's now open up Reception-Option 1 and again, we can go to Visibility/Graphics, select Design Options tab, and here select Option 1.

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So we now have two views that allow us to present each option to stakeholders or clients.

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Of course, these options can be added to a drawing sheet.

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So we can simply take one of our options and drag and drop them onto the relevant drawing sheets.

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If we wanted to present them side-by-side, of course, we could present both options on the same drawing sheet.

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Let's return back to our main 3D view.

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Now once the stakeholder or client has decided a preferred option, we then need to accept that as the primary option.

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To do this, we can go back to the Manage ribbon and select Design Options.

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Our option set Entrance Steelwork contains two options.

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Currently, the curved steelwork is the primary option.

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If this is the one that client accepted, we can simply say "Accept Primary".

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The following dialog box is saying that the remaining option sets will be deleted from the model.

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It's recommended to save a backup of this model, just in case a customer or client or stakeholders change their mind.

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But in this case, I'm going to say "Yes".

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I'm going to accept the deletion of the view that's carrying Option 2, and then go ahead and select "Close".