Design Options best practices for consultants

[Anonymous]

We are working on a hotel project and we are sharing our model with an interior designer. We have several room suites. These suites are set up as links to our main model. Some of the suites have design options that have minor changes depending on the circumstance for that room. We have no issues setting up our views to show the correct design options, but it seems like it is a big deal to the interior designer to get them set up.

Here are my thoughts:

1. Give the consultant a list of the rooms and the correct design option per room so they can set up their views accordingly.

2. or, set up views for the consultant and they can use visibility graphics an use the "linked model per view". This may work for some consultants, but for an interior designer, they would need things set up for interior elevations.

3. Lose the design options and create unique links for each room.

We initially used groups in this project, but found the file to bog down as it got more complex.

[Alfredo_Medina]

I would use option1 from your list, combined with some education on the topic of Design Options. If they are struggling with this, probably they need some training. With a good understanding, they would not be depending on using "by linked view" for everything, but instead they would set up all their views as per to the desired design option. One advantage of design option is the ability to schedule furniture and other elements as per each design option, which is useful.

[Anonymous]

After speaking with the consultant more, it seems like there are some bugs with nested design options. They seem to behave properly when the file with the option is one file from the file being worked on. Once the file is two files cdeep in the case of the consultant, they do not display properly.

File hierarchy for architect: 1. ArchModel.rvt, 2. HotelRoom.rvt ( with options 1, 2, and 3). All options display properly in arch model.

File hierarchy for interior consultant. 1. ConsultantModel.rvt, 2. ArchModel.rvt, 3. HotelRoom.rvt (nested file with options 1, 2, and 3). Options do not seem to come through on the second level.

Perhaps the links need to be bound before sending to consultants. Any thoughts or experience with this behavior?

[Anonymous]

Just found this thread, seems like nested design options two files deep cannot be controlled n

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?166615-Design-options-showing-in-a-linked-file