{"id":208,"date":"2018-09-29T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T09:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2026-11-04T09:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:19:59","slug":"how-to-use-design-option-in-revit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-use-design-option-in-revit\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Design Option in Revit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Design options<\/strong> help in providing numerous alternatives of a single design for a particular building or house type. These alternatives can suggest better options of a single design in terms of design change, color change, direction etc. and can be managed using different design options. When we work with AutoCAD<\/a>, we will have to draft four different options, while in Revit we can create multiple options through a single option.  Design options<\/strong> gives a great opportunity to Architects to present their creativity and design experience.<\/p>

As we all know Revit, has pioneered Building Information Modelling<\/a>.\n It introduced this method of providing design options. This option is \navailable in the Revit ribbon tool and further leads you into design \noption panel. One can provide design options by changing the overall \ndesign or some portions of the building resolving the concerns that can \nbe potentially disapproved by the client.  Using design options in Revit<\/a> is\n a simpler task of providing small scope design options because very few\n portions of project are to be edited. But for large scope of designing \nit becomes a bit complex as most of the parts of project are to be \nedited accordingly.<\/p>

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Steps – Working with Revit Design Options<\/strong>:<\/p>

We can easily go to design option from manage tool from left top corner by clicking “Design Options”.<\/p>

By clicking design options menu, you can see the design options panel\n window on a screen. This design panel window consists of three options \non the right side which are – “Edit”, “Option Set” and “Option”.<\/p>

Edit:<\/strong> This function is only used after creating \nvarious design options. Edit is mainly used for editing of created \ndesign options. Thus it is of no use while providing design options for \nthe first time.<\/p>

Option Set:<\/strong> It enables us to define the portion \nwhere to actually provide design options. It means we can select \ndifferent parts of the project where we have to provide different design\n options for example Entrance, lobby, kitchen area, roof etc. All these \nparts are to be managed by using the function “Option Set”. We can go to\n “New” in option set for adding or providing design options for the \nfirst time.<\/p>

Option:<\/strong> This function actually means the sub design \noption for a single above “Option Set” there may be various options \nnamed as design option1, design option2 accordingly. Consider an example\n in which let entrance be option set having two different sub design \noptions for arch shaped entrance and spiral type entrance which can be \nincluded in “option tool”. Thus option set and option in design option \nmanager can be compared with child parent relationship.<\/p>

After completion of providing design option one should move on to the\n main model in revit. All the parts of project except where design \noptions are provided remain fixed or constant in main model. Fewer parts\n of project will change accordingly as we vary design options in it.<\/p>

Finally we can edit the created design options by going into edit tool in design options manager panel window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Design options help in providing numerous alternatives of a single design for a particular building or house type. These alternatives can suggest better options of a single design in terms of design change, color change, direction etc. and can be managed using different design options. When we work with AutoCAD, we will have to draft four different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}