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change host by entering its ID or unique name

When you have a face based family, you put it into your project - only to find that your intended host object was sharing the same space with another entity that jumped the queue and now is host for your newly placed piece.

In these situations you find the host entry of the new object in its properties window to be greyed out. You may pick the pick new host tool to assign a new host but that will require you to also re-place the family on the new host. Often this happens in a view that is not appropriate to place the family at all because the current view is perpendicular to face the family needs to be placed on. In the meantime you may also have removed the cad link that gave you the original placing aid for the family.

The idea is to ungrey the host entry and allow entering a new host's name or ID while maintaining the family coordinates.