SOLUTION Exercise 6b: Collaboration and project management

Create and manage design options

Exam objectives covered by this exercise include:

• 3.3b Assign, display, and accept primary design options.

Video resources that may help with this practice exercise are:

• Working with design options

Description
In this practice exercise you create three design options for the trusses in the model.

Exercise Solution
1. Open the Revit file Practice Exercise 6b.rvt.

2. The first task is to create two design options.

a. From the Manage ribbon, open Design Options.

b. Create one option set and three options.

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2. The next step would be to assign the trusses to design options.

a. Select the two trusses, and then click Assign to Set.

b. Assign the trusses to all three options.

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3. Now you edit the trusses under each option.
a. Choose Option 1, select the 2 trusses, and change their height to 10’0”.

b. Choose Option 2, select the 2 trusses, and change their heights to 7’0”.

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 c. Choose Option 3, select the 2 trusses, and change their heights to 6’0”.

4. Now you can toggle between the three design options to see the changes.
a. Open the Design Options window again and make Option 2 the primary one.

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b. Note that if you click on Accept Primary, all other options will be deleted.

c. In the prompt, click Accept Primary.

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5. When you accept Option 2 as primary, the model will look like the image below.

END OF EXERCISE

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