Reference Planes - "click to name"

[Anonymous]

I'm hoping to get an answer here in the API forum for what may require some more advanced competence with Revit.

Revit 2016 R2 appears to have introduced "click to name" text at each end of a reference plane, purportedly for convenience. I need to disable that function.

I have used refrence planes in my detail views to assist with aligning detail views on plans. The purported improvement has defeated my solution by introducting text that does not appear unless you click on the reference plane, but nonetheless changes the automatic positioning of the detail views versus the view title.

I desperately need a solution to this since it is already degrading the quality of our sheet layout with my drafter that installed Revit 2016 R2.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

[jeremytammik]

Dear Keith,

Thank you for your query.

Don't yell, please  🙂

There are various ways to disable certain built-in Revit commands.

One of the easiest and cleanest ways is to use the functionality to replace implementation of commands introduced in Revit 2013:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/03/whats-new-in-the-revit-2013-api.html

Search for "Replace implementation of commands".

The procedure is demonstrated by an SDK sample:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/developer-center-and-sdk-update.html#21

Here is another discussion of that:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/06/replacing-built-in-commands-and-their-ids.html

I don't know whether the functionality you are after is a command and/or can be replaced.

You can also check the journal file and see what it says there about it.

If you cannot find a way to disable the functionality, there are tons of other ways to approach this issue.

One final catch-it-all sledgehammer method might be the dynamic model update DMU:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#5.31

You can achieve anything you want with that, and suppressing unwanted changes should be easy.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy