Can I delete a feature without deleting it's children?

[bvanhiel]

I occasionally need to replace a feature (ie loft) with an entirely different feature (ie sweep) early in the model history. I'd prefer to roll back the model to the loft, delete it, create the sweep and then deal with the model failures one at a time as I roll forward. Problem is that SW wants to delete all of the children of the loft as well, so my new first step is hunting down the children and disassociating them from the loft.

Anything I'm missing or is that just the way it's gotta be?

-b

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

That's "just the way" with history dependent modellers.

 

[titaniumapple]

Yeh I think getting rid of all the relations first is the only way to do it

 

[dgowans]

You can try unchecking the option to "Delete all child features" when deleting your initial feature. This helps to keep some downstream features, but not all (fillets and draft are things I've found that get deleted whether you check that option or not).

Sketches and such will understandably crap out, but things like that can generally be fixed easier than they can be recreated.

 

[bvanhiel]

That's "just the way" with history dependent modellers.

Not with Pro/E. Of course Pro/E puts you into the dreaded regen failure mode and forces you to resolve it right then and there... I'm not sure which I prefer.

-b

 

[SBaugh]

I always use the Roll back bar and place it between sketch and feature and roll it forward one step at a time to be able to delete a parent and leave the child... you can do it, its just going to be a lot of work on your part.

Regards

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[J-C]

...and please submit an enhancement request for this....

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/subscription/enhancements/index.html

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
UG NX4.01.0 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2007 SP3.1 on WinXP SP2

 

[SBaugh]

I left out the step of editing the sketch and removing the relationships and then also removing it from the feature if it needs to be.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376