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Design Options Newbie needs help

svpribyl
Booster

I have been watching videos and reading the help file, but I haven't found really basic instructions on getting started. Please help me.

 

For the sake of discussion, I have shown three options for an ADU. The top one has the site information at this point. Version 2 and 3 are shown below them on the page. I realize the version 2 and 3 walls and design would need to coincide with the top site. How do I proceed from here? I am thinking that I create a couple of new Design Option Sets and then assign the walls in the middle design to Option 2 and the walls in the lower design to Option 3. How do I actually go about assigning them? Do I select the elements that I want to be in Option 2 and them click on Option 2?  Is it done in the Design Options palette, and not the Design Options Manager? Any help that you can provide would be appreciated. 

 

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Operating system used: Mac Intel-based 13.6 Ventura

Steve Pribyl
MAC OSX 13.6.3
ArchiCAD 27
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svpribyl
Booster

After much consternation and fooling around, I believe I have learned the basics. I wish the instruction provided by Graphisoft were easier to follow, especially for a new feature.

Steve Pribyl
MAC OSX 13.6.3
ArchiCAD 27
mthd
Ace

Hi @svpribyl, were you able to watch the quite recent webinar on design options workflow ? 

Here is the link just incase you haven’t seen it yet ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjSGwPuT__Y

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Apple Mac Studio M1 Max Chip 10C CPU
24C GPU 7.8TF 32GB RAM OS Ventura
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mthd, I was not aware of it. I will watch it now. 

Thank you

Steve Pribyl
MAC OSX 13.6.3
ArchiCAD 27

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