Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Turning Off 'Double-click Rename' Behavior in Revit's Project Browser

Today's post comes compliments of industry expert Pieter Schiettecatte from A+I in New York City.

Lately, I have found myself accidentally renaming views and sheets in the project browser by slowly double clicking on them.


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Pro tip: there's actually a way to turn this behavior off by adding a line to your revit.ini file. Here's how:

Navigate to  C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\<product name and release> and open the revit.ini file using Notepad. Locate the [UserInterface] section and add SlowDoubleClickInProjectBrowser=0 (see image above).

On restarting Revit, the double-click rename behavior will be turned off. Now, the traditional right-click is the only way to rename views in the Project Browser.


Related Autodesk Knowledge Network (AKN) article: Misc Settings in Revit.ini

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