Selecting Pinned Elements in Revit

Following on from an earlier post about ‘Chain-Pinned’ elements in Revit, it is useful to point out the implications of different kinds of pinning when selecting elements.

Selecting Chain-Pinned Elements

Different hosted
elements can be selected in different ways:

o       
Tab-select to individually select chain-pinned
elements.

o       
Click-and-dragging across curtain walls or
railings will also select individual hosted elements such as curtain grids,
panels, mullions, top rails, handrails or supports  (regardless of whether they are chain-pinned
or not).

You may find that
you cannot select chain-pinned elements by either method.  This may be due to the ‘Selection Controls

‘Select Pinned Elements’ can be turned on or off
as desired;  it may be useful to disable
selection so that chain-pinned elements cannot be selected when
click-and-dragging across curtain walls (such as curtain grids or mullions)

 or

If ‘Select Pinned Elements’ is disabled,…

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