Design options

[ford347]

I understand how to show design options in views. My question is how I can control the visibility graphics of design option elements vs main model elements. The reason why I brought up the editing process is because when editing, it is very clear what is part of the option due to the main model being greyed out. I would like to emulate those graphics in a view. Does that make sense?

[david_peterson]

Project parameter and a View Filter?
Should be easy to apply it.
That's how I'd go about it.
Gives you the most control.

[ford347]

I see, so you're saying just throw in a project parameter, select all objects in the main model, type something like 'main model', and similarly go through each option doing the same. Then use that to control visibility? That would work. The only problem I see with it is that we use an add-in tool to generate walls. When any wall is regenerated, new structural components are created, rendering that field blank each time. But, we normally don't have to change much after the model is finished up and the views are created, so this could work.

It would be nice if we could have access to all visibility controls in relation to design options; that would be cool.

Thanks for your suggestion!

Josh

[david_peterson]

Option B would be to have Dynamo Fill out that parameter for you.
I was thinking you create one Project Parameter called "Design Options" and apply it to all categories. You can make a text based and then you can fill it out with the option name.
You should be able to pull what's on a design option (And what option it's on) and apply that to the parameter.
You shouldn't have to worry about what's in a main model. That's a color by default.
I'm not a solid dynamo user so I'm not 100% certain it's possible, but I did a quick search and found a few threads about it.
Typically if you can get the info out via dyanamo you can sort it, list it and using the list to apply values to those objects.