Design Options with MEP Systems

[ray.blowersYGY6D]

The dream is to have MEP systems and Design Options to fully play together.  Currently, there is a workflow of making a MEP discipline workset, then making a custom view template then associating the Design Option in the view template. 

The challenges with this workflow:

• It is time consuming to create all the worksets and view templates for the design options
• You cannot fully connect MEP systems with this alternative workflow
• Unable to do accurate calculations with the design
• Issues with scheduling 
• If there is phasing with the Design Options, it becomes even more challenging

It would be great if there was a way to work with Design Options and MEP systems.  If there is another way, please share

[Tom_Kunsman]

I do think this is something Autodesk has worked on for the newer releases of Revit (2026 and 2025), so might be something to look into.

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Design option are borderline useless even for architecture. Expecting something useful for MEP is probably asking WAY to much.

[hmunsell]

@Tom_Kunsman advancements have been made for Phasing, but I'm not aware of any for Design Options. I could be wrong though 🙂.

@ray.blowersYGY6D id suggest opening a post in the Ideas Forum for this topic 👍. 

[HVAC-Novice]

Design options in Revit are very schematic and don't work for MEP at all. None of the "I" works, like electrical load etc.

And maybe this is good. Because ideally I don't start to route pipes and ducts etc. before the architect/owner figured out what it is they want  🙂 

We want 12 bathrooms and I pipe it all up, And now maybe only 8 bathroom. So I stop want I'm doing. Wait, now we want 12 bathrooms again, but all fixtures are at different locations. I don't want to incentivize architects to do even more of that 🙂