Enhanced Design Options

[James B]

Hi All,

We've made a number of usability improvements, based on feedback, to Design Options in Archicad 28.

• Common management tasks are now available via the Design Options palette, including create, delete, rename and duplicate. All teamwork enabled.
• Context menu available from Design Options and Set in palette. With clearer setting of Default, and linking elements to a selected Design Option.
• Search for Design Options in palette.

For more details:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Graphisoft-Technology-Preview/Enchanced-Design-Options/ta-p/6064...

[Robert Horvath]

Hi!
Thank you for the correction on the marquee issue (I reported it).😎
The most important thing is that I don't move items that I know I have excluded from this action.
I agree with you that, if group is selected and an item is locked then nothing can be moved.
Feedback on why I can't move would be important! Currently this is missing.
Therefore, another bug report follows:(I was just testing your example) 😨
If there are elements on a locked layer in a group they are also moved even though it lies that they are not moved.

[Tintifax2]

What we really need is assignable renovation status depending on design option.

option 1: wall is new

option 2: (same IFC-ID) wall is existing

option 3: (same IFC-ID) wall is to be demolished

Thus we could use design options as a building phase planing tool.

[Piotr Dobrowolski]

What I badly miss in Design options is: when copy from one of the sets and pasting, while having the another option on and editable: the content should paste into the editable design option, or at least to have a switch in the popup dialog.

the other missing feature in 27: editing the multiple hotlinks with the design option inside hotlink is already done in 28.

[thesleepofreason]

Or better yet revamp the feature to actually leverage computer power instead of taxing the user with keeping track of element statuses and duplication operations. 

Implementing "options" as interconnected fundamental model states instead of dead end side tracks would make it possible to handle all change, not just existential, and all the user have to do is to setup the logical order of the model states and keep track of which one is active for input.

The user defines option 1, 2,3, and 4 as states of the model and decided in which state to work.  Element configurations are inherited between states and the computer keeps track of conflicts and keep a record over each elements status across model states in the form of: Created in option 1, Existing in option 2, Modified in option 3, Deleted in option 4.

A new approach to change and alternative designs

[Matt Balaam]

Is there any plan to add nested design options that can be controlled in a tree structure? The fact design options are only one level deep is very restrictive in their usage when options require sub-options.

Nested Design Options - Graphisoft Community

[bimdo]

Thank you for this new possibilities, feauture request:

• Define one color per design option, instead of creating again a lot of graphical overrides;)

[Tintifax]

Also: Analogue to SHOW ALL ELEMENTS (Renovation Filter)

a "SHOW ALL DESIGN-OPTIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY REGARDLESS" button would be very helpfull.

[Tintifax]

Just missused design options to visualize changing building site facilities over time for a complex project on a compact site.

Works actually well.

When Renovation Filters are involved - it's feasable for very simple projects, but becomes quickly unmanageable.

A workable construction phase planning tool needs to be its own thing WITH an actual timeline.

[Barry Kelly]

Why would you want to see all design options at the same time.

Wouldn't that just be a complete mess of overlapping elements?

Barry.

[abdelaziz]

Hi, @Barry Kelly 

on the other hand it would be good to have an option which would at least allow to indicate the number of elements used in the options to avoid accidents and to allow to clean up