Design Options

[Planit]

How do I combine using the Design Options tool with the Renovation Filter?

If I have an existing building and want to have multiple design options that require different elements to be demolished. For example if a wall is to be demolished in option 1 but is to remain or partially demolished in option 2.

Can all of the existing elements be assigned to the Main Model or does all of the existing need to be assigned to Option 1 and copied to other options so as to have differing renovation status?

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

If you are using renovation filters with design options, then generally, all existing elements will be in the main model.

The design options will contain only new and to be demolished elements.

But there will be exceptions as in your example.

A wall (or part of a wall) that is to be demolished in one option, but is to remain as existing in another.

You would split that wall (if necessary).

The portion that is going to be affected in the designs needs to be removed from the main model.

You would then repeat that wall in each of the design options, tagging it as to be demolished if it will be removed and leaving it as existing if it is to stay.

Of course new walls will be added to each design option as necessary.

So basically, anything that is to be a part of the design options, gets removed from the main model and is re-modelled in each of the design options with an appropriate renovation status.

If the element is to remain as existing, or is to be demolished, or is to be new in ALL of the design options, then it can remain in the main model, to save you repeating it with the same renovation status in every design option.

But if the renovation status is to vary in any one of the design options, then you remove it from the main model and repeat in in each design option with the appropriate renovation status.

Barry.

[Planit]

Thanks Barry