Design Options conflicting

[erinznire]

I'm not too sure what will all need to be known, and excuse the lack of official terminology in my repertoire, but I do very basic drawings in Revit - floor plans only really, and I've added a little screenshot showing the design options and the issue I'm having. I welcome all suggestions, on a fix or even if I should be using a different process. I appreciate you taking the time to read.

I utilize design options to separate each bay in large industrial buildings. I have the main building drawn in the primary option, then I have a design set for options which I design, and then I add another for actual confirmed tenant build outs - seems to generally work, aside from the fact that when walls intersect, even if the walls are on another design option that isn't turned on in my view, the wall on the design option that is turned on gets a little cut through it. To now I've been literally drawing in lines to fill in the spots thinking this must just be the way it is. Today I thought I'd ask to see if it is in fact the way she blows or if I'm doing something wrong? The wall with the piece missing, that is shown in my image, is on the "Bay 14 Tenant Build Out" design option, and the wall that is doing the cutting is on the "Bay 14 Large Build Out" option (that is turned off in my visibility/graphics), neither of these walls exist on any other option set, and I've not used any other Revit fanciness that I can think of.

I hope I gave enough info to know the problem, thank you!

[Avaris.]

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@erinznire wrote:

I utilize design options to separate each bay in large industrial buildings.

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In principle design options are to show (guess what), design options. But the fact is that using a lot of design options will slow down your model. I would advice you to minimize the amount of design options.

What actually is happening, is that Revit elements sometimes do have relationships with elements that are invisible or on a different phasing, or within a design option.

To solve this issue, you could select the wall that is cutting and split it. Then disallow join for the ends that are next to the cut wall and place them next to your wall. That way there is no relationship and your wall will not be cut.

[barthbradley]

Design Options??? Personally, I would have chosen Phasing.