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Can't delete a surface

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Poorpaulus

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Feb 3, 2002
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I have a part where at one point, I have offset a number of surfaces. I now want to delete them. I have deleted all but one, which keeps giving the error message - surface cannot be deleted.

Why is this happening?

Paul.
 
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I believe that error occurs when you have a surface that is being used in the current model. I have seen surfaces that you cannot delete, and that surface is usually being used as the trimming surface. I just hide the surface when I can't delete them.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP [borg2]
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Right-click on the surface in the feature tree, and investigate the parent-child relationships. If there are child features, edit them so that they have no link to the surface you are trying to delete.

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