Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Creating Design Options

Revit is equipped with the functionality to allow you to model different options in one model, better known in the design world as bid alternates. The great thing about how Revit handles this functionality is that any alternate design is never (or at least, is seldom) a completely new structure. Some items are in more than one option. Revit lets you keep like items intact while creating new or different items that belong to different options. This creates a situation in which you only need to model the common items once, so you can focus on the alternates.

FIGURE 21.8 Making the existing shading darker

That being said, ...