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LBoddah10-Marble
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March 18, 2025
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Deleting Axis after Removing / Moving Cuts

  • March 18, 2025
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Hello,

After removing or moving circular cuts by using commands under flexible modeling tabs, axes of cuts remain at their old place. I know you can move surfaces with their respective axes, but I need a way to delete them rather than moving. It is not the case when you use remove as well. I tried to find those axes from layer tree but did not work either. You can create new axes where you move the old cuts/holes, yet I need the erase old ones.

 

If the explanation is not crystal clear, I can provide images. I am using Creo 9.


Thank you.

Best answer by tbraxton

If I am understanding your request correctly, you can hide the axes using layers, but you will not be able to delete them from the model without deleting the feature that is their parent. You do have the option of moving the axis using the flexible move function (see last pic below), this will effectively hide the axes you want to delete when the flexible modeling move is regenerated,

 

You are not able to remove the axis in this scenario due to the existence of a feature that is a parent to the Flexible move or remove operation that is still part of the history of the model. There is a hybrid modeling paradigm when using flexible features such that the parametric feature history is preserved. This can be seen in the pictures below where the axis is persistent. A flexible move is used to shift the location of the circular cut but the axis of extrude 2 remains in the location where the extrude was defined.

 

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You can resolve this by using the move objects selection in the flexible move command.

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3 replies

tbraxton
22-Sapphire II
tbraxton22-Sapphire IIAnswer
22-Sapphire II
March 18, 2025

If I am understanding your request correctly, you can hide the axes using layers, but you will not be able to delete them from the model without deleting the feature that is their parent. You do have the option of moving the axis using the flexible move function (see last pic below), this will effectively hide the axes you want to delete when the flexible modeling move is regenerated,

 

You are not able to remove the axis in this scenario due to the existence of a feature that is a parent to the Flexible move or remove operation that is still part of the history of the model. There is a hybrid modeling paradigm when using flexible features such that the parametric feature history is preserved. This can be seen in the pictures below where the axis is persistent. A flexible move is used to shift the location of the circular cut but the axis of extrude 2 remains in the location where the extrude was defined.

 

tbraxton_0-1742297244861.png

tbraxton_1-1742297254128.png

 

 

You can resolve this by using the move objects selection in the flexible move command.

tbraxton_2-1742297550599.png

tbraxton_3-1742297580871.png

 

 

 

 

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    LBoddah10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    March 18, 2025

    Thank you so much, but I knew this. What I need is removing the axis after removing a cut/moving a cut without its axis. My need is more for removing holes rather moving them.

    tbraxton
    22-Sapphire II
    tbraxton22-Sapphire II
    22-Sapphire II
    March 18, 2025

    This would lead me to ask the question of why you are not deleting the hole or circular cut features? This obviously will get rid of the hole and axis.

      Chris3
      Chris321-Topaz I
      21-Topaz I
      March 18, 2025

      I don't think its possible to do what you want to do. Those axes are internal features that still exist in your model tree even though you have moved the geometry. Can you explain why you want to delete them? Would it be permissible to simply layer them off instead?

       

      The only way you could probably delete them is to collapse the geometry and then remove them after the collapse but that would break the parametric behavior of your part.

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        LBoddah10-MarbleAuthor
        10-Marble
        March 18, 2025

        Thank you for your reply. I need to delete them since I dont need those holes lets say or forgot to move their axes and created new axes and trying to get rid of old ones since they are floating in the model without its hole.

        Hiding from layers is also a solution, yet I need to know if there is a way to remove those axes. Cant we delete them from layer tree?

        Dale_Rosema
        23-Emerald III
        Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
        23-Emerald III
        March 18, 2025

        They are part of the history (recipe of the cad). A hole was created in a spot. Then the hole was move x, y, z. Without the first spot, the software has no reference for x, y, z. So you either have to hide the axis, move it, or delete the hole that is referencing it.

          Patriot_1776
          Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
          22-Sapphire II
          March 20, 2025

          Sorry, this makes no sense.  Are you saying that you imported a STEP file, and then are moving holes/cuts AFTER the import, using the Flexible modeling?

          If so, you MIGHT have luck redefining the STEP and going into the Import Data Doctor and deleting the axis there BEFORE moving the hole/cut.

           

          I don't have an example to try, but if it works, post up.

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