When you enter the Design Options realm the original should become an option too but you can leave it as the primary option, the most likely one to persist. Add the walls/windows to all the options and then modify each version separately.
When someone creates a design and then decides they need to consider or show some other possibilities I also create an empty option, called No Decision, that is primary. Then I assign the first design to the first option and others if the iteration of the design is essentially based on the first. I only add the first design to one option if the others are all radically different from the first, more work to modify the original than doing something from scratch. This way I can show the model with no decision (empty option) in all views and then dedicate other views to each option for review and documentation.
If these designs are options that persist because a different project can choose a different option (think production home building) then these views would live on and no options would become primary other than the empty one. If one design ultimately wins and gets built then that option can become primary and we can use Accept to eliminate the option set entirely, along with the related design option views that lost their fight.
Steve Stafford
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