Revit 2018- Cannot delete level or create floor plan for level - Head scratcher

[Anonymous]

I cannot delete a couple of levels or create floor plans from those levels and they do not currently have associated floor plans.  When I rightclick the level the 'go to floor plan' is ghosted.  If I go to create new floor plan & uncheck the default 'do not duplicate existing' the levels are still not available.  

I've already modeled existing conditions on them, so would love to just create some floor plans and keep moving, but I'm prepared to delete them and recreate them, but that also does not seem like an option.

They are not linked, the model is not workshared. 

The only troubleshooting weirdness I have found is that when I rightclick and 'find referring views' it is the same list as the base top of slab level that works fine.   Anyone ever experience this or have any solutions? 

I'm almost at the point of throwing the model out and starting over in a new file.  I never create floor plans as I create levels because they are never named the same anyway, and there are usually several levels that do not need floor plans. 

[Viveka_CD]

@Anonymous 

Can you share the file and a screencast?

Regards,

[Anonymous]

@Viveka_CD   Attached screen cast and model.  I am trying to create a floor plan from that mezzanine level.

[AFatRat]

Not real sure why it's causing your issue, but uncheck the "Building Story" parameter of the level. That parameter is really only used for IFC exports so it should be turned off.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/EN...

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I tried that and it didn't help.  I didn't realize those had no use for general revitting.  I usually keep them checked for actual levels since we use levels to set other critical top of structure datums as well. 

[AFatRat · Accepted solution]

I have no idea what's going on with your file, but apparently this nonsense works (see screencast). Basically, uncheck "Building Story" parameter for the levels you want to see, then create a new level, then undo everything. Makes perfect sense.

[Anonymous]

YES!  That totally works.  Thank you.  It's always fun encountering new weird Revit behavior!  I run windows 10 on my work station and still have win7 on an old laptop, so I had checked it across operating systems and everything.  The mezzanine level was actually copied from the slab level anyway; I've never had issues with that building story tickbox before, but I guess that is what did it. 

Thank you, thank you!  I was about to start copying and pasting model elements into a new file.