Making Design Options for Design Iteration

Revit provides a set of tools for developing multiple design iterations in the context of one project. You can use these tools to explore alternative designs without having to save multiple independent versions of your model as you move in different directions. With Revit's design options, you create, evaluate, and mock up a wide range of options in the context of your project file. You're free to investigate multiple roof configurations or different entry canopies, explore various furniture and office layouts and stairs—quite literally anything that can be modeled. This functionality allows you to create views that show each option so the two designs can be compared.

Design options work in the following ...

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