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I was wondering if anyone else has come across any issues working with design options where you might need to share? I'm working on a feasibility study that examines different options for adding and annexing to an existing building. The options are large enough that it requires two people to work on one option together. However, I have been encountering some problems with ownership of the design options. I've tried creating separate worksets for each half of the option but this proves to be irrelevant because Revit will still disallow editing because the option set is owned by another person. I'm not sure where revit maintains this feedback across users because it is not part of worksets or views. I've also tried creating a subset to the design option and this makes the other set within the option invisible. Classic. Does anyone have any advice for working this way? Thanks.
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Without testing this . . . . don't check out the workset. Just borrow the objects you need to work on then relinquish them as soon as possible. That would eliminate the workset ownership conflict, no?
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Can you split the design option into 2 seperate design options? Split the building down the middle or something.
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I am with DG on this...it sounds like you "own" the workset rather than just borrowing elements out of it. I have not used design options in a while, but you should be able to work multiples in them...make sure you do not own the workset/elements.
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Paul, I don't think that would work because objects in one design option do not 'mesh' or 'intregrate' with objects of a different design option so where they met would have to be a cold joint. If that is the case then 'yes'. The primary option does however integrate with the main model. Yes, don't 'own' the workset. Borrow the objects instead.
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The ownership issue what I'm not clear on is within the design option: I do not own the objects within the workset and even if I have the elements separated that I want to share in different worksets, the error that is reported says that it is the ownership of the design option itself not any of the worksets in particular.
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Oh, and as far as splitting them into separate design options, if I do this then I lose visibility of the primary and visa versa. They do not remain together for some reason though they are under the same option heading. I may have missed something there as well however.
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Just for clarification. When using 'design options'. There are objects that remain in the 'main model' and then there are objects that get move / copied to 'design options'. There are 'design option sets' that contain 'design options'. Each design option set has 1 primary option that integrates better with the ''main model'. With design options the 'view' can only display one option per option set + the main model and there is only 1 main model for all options in all option sets. Furthermore if the view's VG is set to be 'automatic' then the view displays the 'active option' + the main model. That is per option set. Clear as mud ?
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I understand that. All of that is kosher. What I was asking was how the work within the design option can be shared. Can you share the work within a design option?
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Thats not quite what I was referring to, my fault for not communicating clearly. Instead doing all the work under one design option set. Split the work into 2 option sets, each option set would have a primary option and alternate options. That way each worker would have ownership of his own option set. You just need to decide where to split the work load. Is that more clear? In Revit you can create option sets with multiple options under them. I'm saying create 2 option sets.
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winchester, Owning the DO is a problem with multiple users. I'm not sure how this will work but have you tried using a linked file for this option. If the option is in its own file, multiple users could work on it. In the primary file it could then be in the DO... Again, I have never tried this. I've done a lot with DO's and linked but never a Link in a DO.
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That's a really good suggestion. We had been bouncing around the same idea. I'll try it out and see how it works and perhaps post on it later on. Thanks!
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Paul, having the subsets of options within one overall scheme still runs into a visibility issue as one cannot have more than one subset showing at a time (which makes sense). Conversely, Multiple option sets could work, but then there is a redundancy of option sets that runs the risk of over complicating the design options once more schemes are added. I think this does function as a a workaround, but perhaps not ideally in my case. Thank you for your advice.
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