Design Options API

[josh_moore]

Hello, I'd love to suggest and ask for the support from the community to provide an API for Design Options.  There is SO MUCH that can be done with Design Options from the development community to help make the usage easier for designers and open up doors to leverage Revit more and more in early design phases, for example, Interior Test Fits.  I'd suggest the following initial functionality:

• Create / Delete New Option Set
• Create / Delete Option within Option Set
• Rename Option Set
• Rename Option
• Switch Active Design Option in Active Design Option Dropdown
• Set Primary Option with Option Set
• Set Design Option for each option set in the Design Options Tab of Visibility/Graphic Overrides
• Add and Remove objects from Design Options

Would love for other members of the community to chime in on other major areas this could be exposed in the API.

[boostyourbim]

Existing API is very sparse. Please provide API access to everything for Options that is in the UI.

[Anonymous]

Yes please sooner the better.

[Anonymous]

yes to API for design options and option sets.

[Anonymous]

Just waiting for API for design options and option sets. Lets do it !!!

[Anonymous]

Voted Yes!

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

it will really help to create the options.

[Anonymous]

yes

[Anonymous]

giddy up.

[devopsJ8WVJ]

Yes definitely. Allowing the ability to do this in Design Automation using the Revit API would let us solve a significant blocker in our code

[josh_moore]

We need this please!  So much opportunity here!

[narayanan.m]

Design Option is awesome feature, but it requires API access really

[jean-rene.desy]

Beign able to assign a design option to an element through the api.

[josh_moore]

Also:

• Move Object from Main Model to Design Option
• Move Object out of Design Option into Main Model

[Anonymous]

Currently Revit API only supports deleting Design Options and their Sets. I would be interested in seeing improvements for all the others design option operations.

//Select all Design Options Sets and Design Options
finalCollector = new FilteredElementCollector(doc);
finalCollector.OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_DesignOptions);
finalCollector.UnionWith((new FilteredElementCollector(doc)).OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_DesignOptionSets));
ElementIDs = finalCollector.ToElementIds();
//Deleting Elements
using (Transaction tx = new Transaction(doc))
{
tx.Start("Deleting all design options set and all design options");
XYZ translation = new XYZ();
doc.Delete(ElementIDs);
tx.Commit();
}

[charl.pretorius]

This is sorely needed. Yesterday a colleague approached me for a solution to a very tedious task to create a bunch of design options in a few files and I told him to give me 30 mins, I'll quickly whip something up in Python. Low and behold, nothing! Zero API support! What could have been at most an hour's work, turned into a night's worth of manual, tedious clicking and typing and copying and pasting.

[josh_moore]

Hey Autodesk, friendly bump here.  Looks like this item is one of the top in the ideas forum for Revit API improvements.  Can we get some love on this item?

[kimberly.fuhrman]

@josh_moore  We're here! 🙂 This is certainly a popular topic, and while votes are certainly important, it is not the only criteria used by our teams to determine implementation. Keep an eye on the Revit Public Roadmap  for what our teams are currently working on. This Inside the Factory session explains in detail the decision making process for improvements to Revit. I would also encourage you to join our Revit Preview Release (if you haven't already!) to find out the latest behind the scenes and provide feedback. Hope this helps!

-Kimberly

[ldavisKYCMK]

+1 this would be very impactful.

[devopsJ8WVJ]

yearly +1

Still waiting in hope 🙂