Quick Tips - Disabled New Data Row Button and Pinned Element Selection

Two gotchas I've seen come up a few times lately.

Revit 2015 R2 provides a separate button for a new Data Row when we create a room, area or space (sheets too). It is disabled however when the schedule is not using the Itemize every instance option (un-checked). This means creating a new row might not be visible in the schedule, so it is disabled. I wrote a post about the new Data Row button when R2 became available.

Can't select something in your view? Did you pin it? Someone else pin it? Why do I ask? Because we can tell Revit we don't want to select Pinned Elements now. The trouble is we forget those settings easily and later we look clicking challenged when we repeatedly click on something and Revit ignores us. I previously wrote about the new since Revit 2014 Selection Options.

Revit 2015 Pinned Elements

Revit 2015 won't be as compliant as it used to be when you attempt to delete elements that have been pinned, and that is good!

An exception to this is when you pin a hosted family like a door for example. If you pin a door and delete the host wall Revit will go right ahead and delete the door too. Not even a warning that the door was pinned. Face-Based families like light fixtures don't suffer the same fate as element based (wall, floor, ceiling, or roof) families. I'm not particularly surprised by this. Just be aware of it so you don't rely on it for every circumstance.