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Pinned elements should be impossible to delete.

Pinned elements should be impossible to delete.

This idea has been created on the behalf of users from a French company:

 

Currently some pinned objects such as pinned section views can be deleted depending on how they’ve been selected.

 

Pinned section views for instance, selected with the command “Select all instances” / “In Entire project”, can be deleted from the model
In such case the following warning appears “Some pinned objects were deleted because their parent or host object was deleted.
Those same views cannot be deleted with the command “Select all instances” / “Visible in view”.

 

The expected behavior is that if you directly select an element which is pinned and try to delete it, that Revit will prevent you from doing this while warning you that the deletion was prevented as the object is pinned. This enhancement was introduced in the 2015 version

 

 

However, deleting at a parent level will remove pinned elements and a warning informing the user is displayed.

There are a number of methods where pinned elements can still be deleted (such as via selection in schedule views, workset deletion, for instance)

 

Deleting pinned objects should be simply impossible whatever was the selection method used.

3 Comments
cindy_wang
Autodesk

Pinned objects should not move even if hosted.

 

suggested by: BAM

Anonymous
Not applicable
j.muntz
Participant

Hi, I amazed that Autodesk has not yet implemented a more robust system to prevent view deletion. For example, when a view is deleted from the project browser there is NO warning pop-up, however if you delete a section/elevation marker in a view, then you will get a warning pop-up.

 

My work-around and by far the best way to prevent view deletion is by creating a revision which I name view protect - internal use and change the numbering to none so it does not effect revision sequences.

 

I then place a revision cloud on the views I want to protect from deletion and then tick the revision as issued. Now when you try to delete the view from the project browser window you will now get a warning saying "The Revision of this Revision Cloud has been issued. Deletion of this Revision Cloud is prohibited."

 

Keep in mind though that this revision name will show on the revision table on the sheets, so you can just leave the date and revision name blank so nothing appears in the revision table.Sheet Issues_Revisions - View Protect.jpg

 

View Deletion warning.jpg

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