Design Options

Design Options feature helps you manage constantly changing designs and switch among alternatives.

Create design variations and easily switch among them – whether they include the whole building, just parts of it, or multiple parts at the same.

Choose the best and most efficient design alternatives, in 3D or any 2D view – without having the different options intersecting each other

Study designs in the context of their surroundings and evaluate them for aesthetics, performance, efficiency

Design Options are a view-based setting: document your options via any 2D or 3D output

Finalize Options by integrating a selected Option into the main model, or adapt Options along the lifecycle of a Project by merging, duplicating, or rearranging Options, or moving Options between Option sets.

Filter and extract BIM data according to different Options: create Option-based Graphic Overrides, and extract data via Schedules and Labels

Options are widely integrated into all 2D and 3D elements, including Annotation and Markers such as Sections, Elevations, Details and Worksheets.

Suggested workflow for Design Options

Design Options interface

Create and manage Design Options and Sets

Set a default Option

Activate an Option

Focused editing

Relink elements to a different Option

Working with Design Option Combinations

Design Options in Teamwork

Hotlinks and Design Options

Comparing Design Options

Element properties for Design Options

Merge Design Option to Main Model