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Delete An Useless Sketch

Delete An Useless Sketch

Delete An Useless Sketch

(OP)
Folks,

This is a newbie question, so thanks for your indulgence, I'm using SolidWorks 2003.

After trying many things I'm at my wit's end about this.  I have created a sketch that I no longer needs, but I can't get rid of it.

It keeps on telling me that "Entities which do not belong to the active sketch can not be deleted" when I highlight the sketch in the explorer and press delete.  I deleted all the objects in that sketch (it also won't let me save it but that's another story).

I'm sure it's probably something I overlooked but the solution does not appear to be very intuitive.

Help!

Swoga

RE: Delete An Useless Sketch

"Entities which do not belong to the active sketch can not be deleted" should appear when you try to delete something that is not part of a sketch that is open for editing.

Make sure that the sketch is not open for editing when you try to delete it.  Right-click on an empty area of the screen and hit "Exit Sketch" if it appears.  Then select the sketch in the Feature Manager tree and delete.

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Backdoor solution in case there is some odd glitch:
Make some sort of feature from the sketch (Insert-->Surface-->Planar would be good).  Then highlight the feature in the feature manager tree and hit "Delete".  At the bottom of the confirmation window is a checkbox to delete absorbed features.  Make sure it is checked.

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RE: Delete An Useless Sketch

(OP)
TheTick,

Your answer has brought me much happiness.  I have tried it and it works great.  I guess the key is to exit sketch.

Thank you!

Swoga

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