Cannot select filled region in view with design options

[pedruccioli]

Hello, there.

I've created some plan views with a design option enabled, and created a filled region to highlight an area in those views.

Even though I know the regions do not report to Design Options, I cannot select/edit it to do anything once they are in place. The only workaround so far is duplicating the view without detailing and copying all the information from the original view to the duplicated one, then deleting the view with the filled region. Changing the "Visible In Option" property of the plan view to "all" also does nothing.

It seems like creating a filled region inside a view that report to a Design Option, or while having a Design Option active, locks it into oblivion.

Anyone had this problem and know if there's some setting that needs to be changed?

Sorry for not posting pictures or files, this project is protected by an extensive NDA.

Thank you.

[EATREVITPOOPCAD · Accepted solution]

Not sure if this is what you are asking but here is my best guess:

you need to hide the filled region so you can select objects below it.

To hide filled region: select it, right click -> Hide in View -> Elements

When done modifying you can unhide the region. 

To unhide: enter keyboard shortcut 'RH' then select the region -> right click -> Unhide in View -> Elements

[ToanDN]

@pedruccioli 

I have none of such issue in both Revit 2019 and Revit 2022.

[barthbradley]

Sounds to me like you are sketching the Filled Region boundary using the "Pick Lines" tool with "Lock" active .  If so, uncheck "Lock".  

...a Selection Restriction, such as pinning Filled Region and disabling "Select Pinned Objects", could also be responsible for the behavior. 

[Lance.Coffey]

Thank you for the question @pedruccioli and welcome to the Autodesk forums!

If the selection of the Filled Region is related to the Design Option, then I would expect that unchecking the Active Only / Exclude Options checkbox would allow selection of the element.

If unchecking Active Only / Exclude Options does not allow selection of the filled region, other items to check would be the selection controls (like Select Pinned Objects that @barthbradley mentioned).

If none of the info above is helping, it may help to create a new project using a default template, and see if you can reproduce the behavior:

• If you can, then the new project wouldn’t contain any proprietary information and could be shared (to help us dig into what is causing the behavior you are seeing).
• If you cannot, then the new project could be used to check for differences between the two (Transfer Project Standards could be used in finding what difference is causing the behavior).

[pedruccioli]

Thanks for all the replies.

I checked all the suggestions, and apparently somebody (maybe even myself) messed with the view template, hiding a lot of lines, leaving only "Lines >> Lines" visible, which made the filled region "unselectable".

Since the template was applied to all plan views in that option, I thought it was related to the design option.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll mark @EATREVITPOOPCAD as a solution, since I managed to find the missing link while tweaking the visibility settings.