As of the December 4, 2015 patch, the fan is now appearing in the search and in build mode. This is now working in my game.
Could you post a picture of the item you mean ?
Just upload to some picture sharing site and post the link here.
EDIT: I assume you mean the Arctic Kiss fan. Is your Sim Detective Level 7 ? I found it when I edited the police lot and it says needs Level 7 Detective career. It's under Police Station items there. Checking home lot in a minute
Not sure if this will work.. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/441704675930264313/ Yes it is the arctic kiss? fan. Yes my sim got to detective 8 actually. Then there was the.. false clues glitch. Clues given for a criminal that were complete lies compared to the actual criminal she was supposed to arrest. I wasn't aware of the.. "Just ask everyone around until they point to the criminal" option to fix this glitch. I had her quit her job and start over. When the false clues started is when I noticed the fan was missing from my buy catalog. I wonder if the false clues glitch has anything to do with the item disappearing, or if it is my mods. Could it also have anything to do with there being no blueberries in my game? That is probably unrelated. There are bakery items that say a blueberry is needed to bake them.. and there are no blueberries anywhere to be found, not even in "bb.showhiddenobjects" search "debug"
Here's a thread for the blueberry thing: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/825010/blueberries
Do you have the item on the police lot ?
tested this out for the OP and (no mods or CC) even did a repair game in Origin just in case and i also started a new game with new Sims in the unlockable rooms i don't see the fan in the room and i used the bb.showhiddenobjects went through debug by pack then all of debug no fan and yet it is at the police station however i had the new Sim join the police force joined him at work i used the cheat bb.enablefreebuild used the eyedropper to clone the fan and it showed up in police station items then switched control to a Sim at home used the cheats testingcheats and buydebug and the fan does not show up
