Remove Element from Design Option Set

[Anonymous]

It's a simple, small idea, but useful I think. We currently have a designated button that takes an element from the Main Model and adds it to a Design Option Set ("Add to Set"). But there's no method of removing an element from a set and putting back in only the Main Model besides deleting it and copy/pasting, which doesn't feel as legitimate as adding it does. It may work for components like furniture, but when it comes to walls and such, you have to verify that the heights are correct and that it's attached to the appropriate elements around it.

Just add another button: "Remove from Set".

[RogK]

Thought this might be a big help but nope, no way to remove from a set.. (to make matters worse the "edit selected" option make you think you can..)
Cant use them in schedules easily either..
Revit promises so much but falls over so often..

[spindelmannen420]

You can use the "add to set"-dialog to remove elements but you cant open the dialog for elements already in the set you are viewing. 

You need to open the dialog from the main view. Select the elements by unchecking "Exclude options".

Solution: 

1. Select the "main model" design option in the design option panel on manage tab or from selector on bottom toolbar. 

2. Uncheck "Exclude options" in bottom right toolbar to make all elements selectable in main view

3. Select the elements you wish to remove from a design option

4. Go to manage tab and press "add to set" button

5. Uncheck the design options you wish to exclude the elements from

The "add to set" should be renamed to "add/remove from design option", the "exclude options" filter should be selectable from the actual design options panel and the error for "element already in design option" should be removed. 

[jkidder]

@spindelmannen420 This does not work, the errors "None of the selected elements can be added to this Option Set. The following warnings provide additional information." and "Elements that were already in a Design Option were selected. These will not be added to the Option Set." when attempting to uncheck the option set the element is in to return it to the main model.

Cut and paste is still the only way to remove elements from a design option set and return them to the main model when an option can't be accepted, which is undesirable since any tagging of the element will be lost.

[stu_BG]

Wow, 9 years old and still no fix.

If Autodesk spent as much time and money actually improving their products, documentation, and knowledge base as they do re-branding or re-pricing or other marketing tricks aimed at short-term stockholder gains, they might actually create brand loyalty instead of brand hostages.

[octavio.nilaUNGGM]

There is a solution if you plan to remove all design options or bring specific elements from a design option back into the main model. Simply select 'Option Set 1' (or the desired option set and temporarily make it "Primary"). This will display all the elements. Then, click 'Accept Primary,' which will transfer all elements from the selected option set back to the main model.

Important note: Make sure the design option you plan to bring back to the main model is set as the primary one; otherwise, the elements will be deleted.

[jofroconsultants]

Many thanks 

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[kcannon7SM62]

@octavio.nilaUNGGM, that's not the point. That deletes ALL other options. The problem is when I'm first setting up the options and trying to sort out what needs to be in the option and what needs to be part of the main model, something that can frequently change as redesigns happen. Ideally I could move an object from the main model to an option, from that option to another option, and from the other option back to the main model, all without disconnecting it (which is what the cut / paste in same place does).

[auburn]

^Bump!

[FG_RVT]

9 years later.. it's still an issue.

[stu_BG]

If Autodesk spent as much time and money actually improving their products, documentation, and knowledge base as they do re-branding or other marketing tricks aimed at short-term stockholder gains, they might actually create brand loyalty instead of brand hostages.

[t_newsom]

Just a sad sad bump to yet another ten year old thread that I found while searching for what I thought would be a simple question.

*hollow laughter*