Understanding design options and their ability to model multiple configurations of a specific area is an essential skill for contemporary architects and designers. This article delves into the process of creating, managing and presenting multiple design options using visibility graphic override settings.
Key Insights
- The article details the use of design options to model alternative configurations of a specific area, such as restrooms, canopies, or roof designs, eliminating the need for 'save as' or drawing something off to the side.
- Visibility graphic override settings are leveraged to switch between various design options and to create unique views that showcase each option.
- The final part of the guide concentrates on the practical application of these tools, namely creating design options, presenting them on a sheet and emailing them to a client for approval.
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In this first lesson, we're going to go ahead and explore design options. What that means is essentially we're going to be able to model multiple options of a particular area, or even it could be canopies or roof designs or anything along those lines, but we can then cycle through the different options depending on our view settings. So right now you can see the view setting is set to show the restroom with this configuration with two different fixtures per gender here, and what I could do is if I were to go to my Visibility/Graphic Overrides, then I can go ahead and I can actually change it from one of the options shown to a different one, and then it'll show me another option that could be selected, and what's cool about this is I can even have different views that show the different options because it's a Visibility/Graphic Override setting, which means that it's view-specific. If I look at option A, which is what we're seeing here, I have a view that's specifically set up for that, or I can go to option B and then I have another view that's set up for that as well, and so what we're going to do is we're going to go through the exercise of creating the different options like you see here and even putting them on a sheet so it's something that we could easily email to a client to get their approval on so they can look at, okay, here's option A with two restrooms that each have a single fixture or we can squeeze it in to where we have a sink and two fixtures per gender on here, and so Design Options is a powerful tool that we could use to express different options within the model without having to do something like a Save As or drawing something off to the side, which you might see in other software programs like AutoCAD, and so in the next video we're going to go through some of these concepts and we'll be able to get started on our process of creating design options.
