Change a ceiling texture to "none" and all the fixtures need to be deleted!

[kgatzke]

No option other than Delete Instance.  Are you kidding me?

Starting the new year with this crap...

[ToanDN]

Create a new ceiling type with a different material (no surface pattern) and change that ceiling to that type. The lights will stay put.

[hmunsell]

I cant duplicate this in my model, can you please upload an RVT file having this issue?

[ToanDN]

Really?!? This issue (for ceiling based families only, face/work planed based not affected) has been here as long as i started using Revit.
- Create a tile ceiling
- Place a few ceiling based lights
- Edit the ceiling assembly, edit the tile material and change the surface pattern to None

[hmunsell]

it has been Years since I have used "Ceiling Based" lights LOL. once we started having issues between Elec and Arch I remade all our families to Face based. cant say I ever had this issue. now I'm going to have to try it :-).

[barthbradley]

I'm disappointed. I can't replicate in 2020 using Ceiling Hosted Cans.  I do seem to recall having this issue though. Years ago.  Has it been resolved, @ToanDN  -- or am I just blessed today?  

[ToanDN]

Same issue in Revit 2019 and 2020.1.  Not sure about 2020.newer.

[barthbradley]

Hot Diggity Dog!  I did it!  2019.  Apparently it's fixed in 2020.2.  

@kgatzke: looks like the solution is going to cost you $2,249.99 -- per year.  😉

[kgatzke]

We have 2020 and full subscriptions (don't know about our consultants) but on large projects with many team members it's a pain to upgrade, especially when there's always some deadline "next week".  Projects almost always stay in the version they started because we've never had a seamless upgrade process that didn't create a whole bunch of errors or delete a bunch of s, in fact once we couldn't upgrade one model at all.  Not even Autodesk could fix it.  Glad to hear they actually fixed a problem in the next version tho.