clog boy
2007-09-28, 10:53 AM
We discussed groups vs design options roughly six months ago. Significant changes appear to have been made in the way groups behave, making them easier to work with.
So let's match them up again.
Design Options
You can put whatever you want in a design option, switch them on and off and replace with another option within the same set without the model complaining about it. However, a design option is view specific. They're not as easy to edit as the main model, you can't 'explode' a design option.
Question:
If you make a design option primary, and you delete all other design options. Will that design option become the primary throughout the project?
Groups
Groups are pretty much like blocks in AutoCAD, but 3D. Annotations within a group will become a nested group. You can mirror or move a group, and replace a group with another group, but should expect errors to pop up. Groups are model specific, not view specific
Question:
What exactly has changed since Revit 9.0? Can a group be exported?
This discussion is intended as a reference for other users, and for myself to become more aware of the potential of both options.
So let's match them up again.
Design Options
You can put whatever you want in a design option, switch them on and off and replace with another option within the same set without the model complaining about it. However, a design option is view specific. They're not as easy to edit as the main model, you can't 'explode' a design option.
Question:
If you make a design option primary, and you delete all other design options. Will that design option become the primary throughout the project?
Groups
Groups are pretty much like blocks in AutoCAD, but 3D. Annotations within a group will become a nested group. You can mirror or move a group, and replace a group with another group, but should expect errors to pop up. Groups are model specific, not view specific
Question:
What exactly has changed since Revit 9.0? Can a group be exported?
This discussion is intended as a reference for other users, and for myself to become more aware of the potential of both options.