Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

[DonDon]

Hi All

I am relearning Archicad after a long hiatus.  It's been going very well and the answers I've needed on this forum and on YouTube have been great.  However....

I have a stair and I can not change its renovation status from existing to demolition.  What am I doing wrong?

I've created a new stairs on both with both demolition and proposed to test this, but then can't change those either.  I'm working in Archicad 22 on a Mac

[Luiz Braga]

Hi Felix,

I had this issue many times with a variety of different elements. Just solve the issue right now with a set of columns that wouldnt change its status. All I did was to change its distance to project zero. As soon as I did that, the Renovation status became available so I could change it. See if it works for you.

[henrysaxby]

Hello,

 I'm not sure if this would work with relation to stairs, but I had a similar problem with doors once. Essentially, as the door was placed on a wall marked as 'New Construction,' I couldn't change the door to anything other than 'New Construction,' as it wouldn't be able to have existed in a wall that wasn't there prior. 

 Could it be that the stairs are linked to a floor (or both floors) that is marked specifically as 'New Construction' or 'To Be Demolished' and therefore turning off your ability to alter the renovation filter status of that item? 

[zoe-pettit]

Hi Felix,

Were you ever able to resolve this? I am running into the same issue with some roof rafters that were modeled as "new" when they should be "demo". The options to change renovation status are greyed out, and I cannot figure out why.

Even when I try to model new rafters, in a window where the construction status is set to "demo" or "existing" I am unable to model them in as existing or demo. 

[DanVk]

I had a similar problem today but with Polyline/Line and Library Objects. AC 27 Build4060. Not a teamwork file.

No matter what they didn't work, I was able to use them, but they didn't appear on Project/View map. I checked the classification options and both Renovation Status & Show on Renovation Filter were in grey and a day before they were okay.

For me the solution was :

Window > Palettes > Renovation Palette > Unpin whichever filter is active.

I don't have any idea what was the reason for this, but what I did could be the solution for your issue too. 

[aarkell]

Any chance the stair object was accidentally locked? If you have the object selected and go to Edit>Locking>Unlock does that help? We've had a couple users accidentally lock things before, think a shortcut may have been accidentally pressed. If that's not the case, hopefully one of the other comments help!