Introduction to Design Options in PDF, narrative style
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What good is a Ceiling Tag?
It is one of the few tags that can directly access the Level parameter – quite useful, even to the point where I created secondary Design Option called Level Tagger with a bit of Ceiling on it, and th…
Now this is what I call a descriptive Error Message
It even gives me a step-by-step on how to do it properly. Revit is truly telling me What it Wants … and it doesn’t want to deal with Areas and Design Options! “Areas and Area Boundaries are not allowe…
Deleting a Design Option Set may prompt to delete View Templates
If a View Template includes a Design Option visibility setting, and then the associated Design Option Set is deleted, Revit will prompt you to delete the View Template: Obviously, you can untick the b…
Accepting a Primary Option results in Deletion of Drafting Views – explanation
I saw this tweet and I thought I would look into the problem: I created a Drafting View and then applied a Secondary Option to its Visibility / Graphics: Then I used the Design Option dialog to Accept…
Element must be in Main Model – workaround
While editing an In-place family (Sweep) inside a Design Option, I tried to unpin a sketch line using the Pin icon on the screen. I received this error:Element must be in Main Model To get around it, …
Room Tags, Design Options and Revit Links
Here is the problem – I have two linked files, set as separate options in the same Option Set. If any of the Room elements overlap in the two linked files when placed in the host file, and I have the …
Five Places to Hide Things in your Revit Model
Sometimes you want to save some Revit elements for later – like throwing them in the cupboard until you need them. Here are five ways to do that: Group, then Link, then Unload the Link (you can copy /…
Using a single RVT link with Multiple Design Options for Multi-Storey
I have used a similar technique for residential housing – where you can have repetitive plans with only small differences. It can even be adapted to work in a demolition scenario. The visibility in ea…
Revit in Motion: Select all Instances
Interesting post from Revit in Motion: Select all Instances. Basically, I didn’t know that ‘Select All Instances – Entire Project’ will actually look inside Design Options! In this case, What Revit Wa…