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How to unlock a construction that comes from the library

Purpose

Section titled “Purpose”

Edit a construction or building product that’s inserted from a library, it starts out locked by default.

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”

The element is inserted from a library and shows the lock icon.

Steps

Section titled “Steps”
  1. Find the element in the building model tree. It shows “Locked — from library. Unlock to edit.”
  2. Click the lock icon to unlock the element.
  3. Confirm, if the app asks.

What the lock covers

Section titled “What the lock covers”

The lock is inherited by child elements: the construction’s structure, its lifespan (lifespanLocked: “parent is locked”), and the include-in-calculation checkbox (include.locked) are all locked until you unlock it.

Unlocking disconnects the element from the library version: future updates to the library version are no longer automatically carried over to your unlocked, customized element.

Result

Section titled “Result”

The element can now be edited freely in your project, but is no longer synced with the library original.

See also

Section titled “See also”