Pin Categories (Revit pyRevit Tool)

Lock whole categories of elements against accidental moves and deletes, in one click, instead of hunting and pinning elements by hand.

Grids, levels, links, scope boxes, and reference planes get nudged or deleted by accident all the time. This pyRevit tool lists every category in your model with its element count, lets you tick the ones you care about, and pins or unpins all of their elements in a single undoable transaction.

What's inside

• One pyRevit button: Pin Categories
• A category list with element counts, split into Model, Annotation, and Other tabs
• Entire Model or Active View scope
• A text filter to narrow long category lists
• Select All and None per tab, plus Shift+Click to tick a range
• Pin and Unpin, each applied to your whole selection in one undoable transaction with a reported count

Who this is for

• BIM professionals who want grids, levels, and links locked before the team starts modeling
• BIM managers protecting project setup against accidental edits
• Revit users transitioning into BIM who want one window instead of selecting elements category by category

Requirements

• Autodesk Revit 2021 or newer
• pyRevit installed (free, from pyrevitlabs.io)
• An open model with elements

What you'll get faster

A protected project setup in seconds. Pick the categories, click Pin, and every element is locked at once. Unpinning is just as fast when you need to make changes.

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