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Design Option Combinations in Drawing Manager

JaredBanks
Mentor

Design Option Combinations should be a column in the Drawing Manager.

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Jared Banks, AIA
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Decumanus
Contributor

I agree, and each option should have possibility to set its own color of Fade Environment, AND it should be visible on layouts... I had to use graphic override...

This is a great feature, but it look like not entirely implemented.

R

James B
Graphisoft
Graphisoft

Hi Jared.

Thanks for the comment, we had some technical limitations/constraints in adding the Design Option Combinations as an extra column to the Drawing Manager, but are investigating ways how to do it.

James Badcock
Graphisoft Senior Product Manager

We didn't want to duplicate Graphic Override functions, but offer a workflow of being able to quickly fade what you're not actively working on - so more similar to Trace.

James Badcock
Graphisoft Senior Product Manager
furtonb
Advisor

Can you set the Design Option Status for drawings?

It looks to me that you can't and they are always part of the main model (as are hotspots which is weird).

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That could work. And color coding! 

 

can a  hotlinked module be in its own set?  

Hotspots and drawings can't be part of a Design Option, which is annoying.

Jared Banks, AIA
Shoegnome Architects

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And able to be shown as a trace reference

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If a Design Option is part of a saved view, that view can be used as a trace reference.

Jared Banks, AIA
Shoegnome Architects

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