TABLE OF CONTENTS Building construction happens over time, as a result of many directed and realized choices. Revit Building provides design tools that take care of both space and time (phasing), and also allows explicitly for the process of choice. You can create, order, and display alternatives using Design Options. At any stage of the process you can resolve an option into the model and discard alternatives.
Revit Building uses parameters to drive any relationship the user wants to define. Parameters can hold formulas, which now include logical operators such as yes/no and if conditions. Families can now hold features or arrays that can be called or suppressed by family type or instance cabinets with or without end panels, for example, or brackets that appear under a length of counter.
Create, manage, and resolve Design Options
Create two different stair styles with custom rails
Create a custom wall style with a vertical structure
Create and place a nested component family with family types based on size, utilizing parametric formulas
Design Options
Option sets
Options
Stairs
Railings
Wall structure
Family creation
Family types
Parametric formulas
Conditional operators in formulas
Grid lines
In the previous exercises you developed various parts of building models. As most design projects progress, you will want, at some point, to explore multiple design schemes. Revit Building's Design Options allow you to develop alternate schemes, either simple concepts or detailed engineering solutions. Design Options coexist in the project file with the main model...
