Dimensions and annotations in design options

[alex60]

Hi every one, I am doing several houses with design options, but we need all the information for the main model will be unique for all the options in every model in order to keep only one file and manage the information just like and xref. Please what is the best pratice to make this?

Thanks in advance,

Alex.

[ryan.duell]

You can have specific geometry, along with dimensions specific to a Design Option.  First, here is some additional information from WikiHelp on Design Options:

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/enu?adskContextId=HID_EDIT_DESIGNOPTIONS&product=Revit&release=2012&lan...

Here is an example video showing separating some annotation elements across Design Options:

Video Example

You may notice that text cannot be Design Option specific.  It is recommended to place this type of annotation directly in the Design Option View, since it is view specific.

As an alternate approach, you could use linked files if you did not have to keep everything in the same model.

Thank you,

[alex60]

Thank you Ryan for your resonse.

My question is if I can use the main model with all the information as a linked file in order to keep this information in one file alone and make the options on that file.

thanks in advance

Alex.

[ryan.duell]

You should be able to keep your Design Options in one project file.  If you link this project file into another project, you can control the visibility of Design Options [for each view] through the link.

Visibility/Graphic Overrides > “Revit Links” tab > Display Settings > “Basics” tab, set to Custom > “Design Options” tab > set desired visibility of Design Option to show in link.

Please let me know if this is what you were referring to.

Thank you,

[alex60]

Thanks Ryan, but in my office want to keep the annotations and dimensions from the main model as only one file, so my idea was to link the file with the main model only and later develop the options in the file where the main model is linked. Is it possible or not?

Thanks in advance

Alex.

[mattendler]

Resurrecting this thread.

Running into this problem as well.

How do we have annotations embedded within Design Options?

Currently my text cannot be added to any sets (Running Revit 2015)

[SteveKStafford]

Views are assigned to a Design Option (DO) or left to show whichever DO is Primary by default. When you want to show a Design Option fully documented you duplicate a view, assign the Design Option specifically to the view via Visibility/Graphics > Design Options. Then add your annotation to that view.

The trouble happens when people add annotation to elements that belong to a DO but the view is assigned the Primary option which could change. When a different DO is selected to be Primary then the other options annotation is no longer relevant. It is always much better and more reliable to create views which are dedicated to a specific DO so this risk is eliminated.

[Anonymous]

Has this been solved? Is there a workaround to have the text notes and dimensions in design options?