Revit 2013 double click to edit family

[nigeld]

Revit 2013 double click to edit family. A new feature that I don't particularly like. Can anyone instruct me how to disable it ?
Thanks.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Don't double click on any families :lol:
Can't be disabled as far as I know.

[Overconstrained]

Revit 2013 double click to edit family. A new feature that I don't particularly like. Can anyone instruct me how to disable it ?
Thanks.

I'm with you on that one. Particularly frustrating on titleblocks when inputting sheet names directly. More often than not you end up opening the titleblock family.

[nigeld]

Thanks, but not what I wanted to hear. Yes, for me too it was the unwanted opening of titleblock families when just tring to update a simple parameter that is causing havoc.

[gbrowne]

Likewise. Pretty annoying...

[nigeld]

Official reponse from autodesk when I asked them how to disable this:
"Thank you for contacting Autodesk Product Support with your case. As of now you will not be able to disable this feature. This I could log this with the development as this could be a good feature to incorporate. "
Well done autodesk on another poorly implemented "new feature".

[jsteinhauer]

I think I had the same reaction a couple of weeks ago, on the 'What's new with 2013' thread. Nice to see that I'm not in the minority.

AutoDesk,
Please have this double click to edit families as an option, default setting as off, in future releases.
Thank you,

Jeff S. - Long time AD product user

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?138422-Revit-2013-here-s-whats-new&p=1167702#post1167702

[Rick Moore]

This is a featured I've wanted for a while. What else would you expect double-clicking a family to do? If you expect nothing to happen then why double-click?

[jsteinhauer]

This is a featured I've wanted for a while. What else would you expect double-clicking a family to do? If you expect nothing to happen then why double-click?

I personally would want it to open the family's 'Type Properties'. Nothing more nothing less.

Jeff S.

[patricks]

YES! Double-click to open Type Properties would be massively useful. Was this not discussed during the Beta Testing? I participated in it a little bit but was really unable to go in-depth too much.

I just see it as making it way too easy to accidentally get into the family editor, when I don't really want most users in the family editor.

[nigeld]

Interesting comments. The fact that we are forced to have doubleclick enabled if we are on the 2013 platform is what I object to. An on/off tickbox in OPTIONS would have been better.

[Overconstrained]

This is a featured I've wanted for a while. What else would you expect double-clicking a family to do? If you expect nothing to happen then why double-click?

It's not double-clicking families that is the issue as such, it's thing like titleblocks, window tags, door tags etc where you may be inputting text directly into the family in a project. If you try to select the editable text and accidentally click again (which often happens if the program does not respond straight away), bingo, you open the family. You have to be VERY deliberate with your selection now. It actually slows down the workflow quite a bit.

[Rick Moore]

I see now. Type properties would be a good option, we should be able to choose what it does

[cr_gixxer]

Double click to open a family, but alas, no double click to alter a linked file.

[RolyNZ]

I click then drag families around, but now if I'm too quick it pens the family, Double click Door numbers to fill them in, now click, wait click + it is OK. Room names, title blocks, keynotes, what a curse!

[RolyNZ]

Double click to open a family, but alas, no double click to alter a linked file.
Double clicks would be great for views too. I gues Autodesk has so many programs that it can't push development of them all like it used to with AutoCAD.

[jsteinhauer]

I watched as someone yesterday double clicked on a tag family to edit information, only to open the tag in the family editor. This happened over 15 times, before I told them to go to a schedule, or just select the object and change the information in the properties box.

I don't think that the programmers at AD did this maliciously, the end result was just not thought out.

Hope there is an option in 2014 to select what DC does.

Cheers,
Jeff S.

[Baldwin_4-6-0]

Worthless new feature.

[Mike Sealander]

Must admit I agree: It's a pain in the butt.

[durangodave]

....double clicked on a tag family to edit information, only to open the tag in the family editor......
This happens to me all the time. I HATE it.
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[graphite]

Evolve or die!!!!!!

lol jk. I don't like it much either.

[CADastrophe]

Evolve or die!!!!!!

Are you telling Revit or the users to "evolve"? ;) Revit needs to be able to devolve if needed, lest it eventually hit an evolutionally dead-end and become unusable!

This feature is extremely troublesome, especially with an array of novice Revit users surrounding me! "Ah!! What did I do?!" they frequently exclaim. :banghead: It was on my personal wishlist (and I see it was already brought up in this thread) to make the double-click bring up Type Properties. Except for Tags - that would still bring up the dialog box for the values.

Seeing as how there's so much negativity in this thread (justifiably), is there anyone out there that likes this feature? (Perhaps you can disguise yourself to avoid ridicule!)

[andrewharle]

No I don't like it!

Very disappointing that Autodesk did not fix in Revit Service Pack 2. Don't they listen to their users!

This really is a frustrating feature - better called a mistake, and needs removing as soon as possible.

Not sure about the double click to bring up family type, unless this was configurable by the user via the Options menu or .ini file.