Revit confront legal and actual revision.

[vectorteam]

The question is really simple. 

I have a design that is the "actual state" of the building. 

In the 2D DATA I need to ALSO specify differences between 

"actual state" 

and

"legal documentation deposited" 


What I usually would do is to make another design near the floor and confront in the sheet environment. 

This is not possible in Revit since the lists of the door for example will result in duplicates, the walls start to have issues, and construction problems. etc etc...

Is there a way to have configurations/review? 

What I would need is 

Actual design 
Legal design 

And switch from one to another and confront them on sheet environment. 

I already tried phases and design variations. 

They allow me to add and remove walls, but not to modify the position of an existing wall.

How should I solve this? Thanks for the advice and thanks if you came reading down here. 

[Anonymous]

Design options are ideal for that type of work. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/EN...

[vectorteam]

Well, I managed to do the trick but Design Options are not ready to go and the way they are tough is really cumbersome. 

Design option ore boolean, it means they can manage an existence or nonexistence of a particular set of geometry. 

In my case, I don't have to delete from option 1 to option 2 but I had to MOVE the geometry. This cannot be done unless you don't proceed that way: 

From bottom to top or top to bottom, depend on floors dependencies:

Cut from the main model to the
Actual building option

and copy everything in option 1 

After we have done, copy and paste the whole model in the

option 2

Now you have two independent designs.

From the view tab of the view, you can choose whether the view is about option 1 or the option 2 design.

I came from industrial automation and behavior like this are seen in cad's for hobbyist, I think Autodesk should invest and take an example from industry and implement CORE features like design options even for positions and not only for existence-non existence. 

[Anonymous]

Excellent

[RobDraw]

You have the answer already. You just need to learn how to implement either one. In Revit, the same wall cannot exist in two different place. If you go the phases route, I would draw the design as existing, demo the differences, and put the as-built in the new phase.

I would only use design options if there was an actual need for it making phasing undesirable.