Revit – Stop Double-Click for Revit Family Editor

By Garry Stockton

When using Revit, do you ever get frustrated with a family opening up in the family editor when you accidently double-click on the family while working in a project?  Revit added this feature quite a few releases ago to enable easier access to modify families so that you don’t have to select the family and then choose the Edit Family command.  However, I have found this feature to be really annoying.

So, to turn this feature off:

• Go to the Application menu (the big “R” at the top left of the screen) and chose the “Options” button at the bottom of the menu.
• In the left side of the Options dialog box, select the User Interface category.
• Select the Customise... button next to Double-click Options.
• In the Customise Double-click Settings dialog box, select the box next to Family.
• Pick the arrow for the drop-down box and choose the Do Nothing option.
• Pick the OK buttons to exit the dialog boxes.

Notes

This is a user-specific setting for each version of Revit.