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ILoveMadoka1-Visitor
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April 4, 2018
Question

Cannot delete lines from sketch

  • April 4, 2018
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Creo Parametric 3.0

 

I have a "shape" inside of a sketch that also contains other shapes.

The shape in question has 6 different sides.

No matter which order I choose I can only delete 4 of the lines.

Two of the lines (the last two left) cannot be deleted.

One time its the upper left two corner lines, next time I try it's the bottom two in the lower right corner,

next time I try I'm left with the bottom most line and top most line.

IT IS NOT THE SAME LINES EVERY TIME.

 

When I get to the last two I get "Invalid Selection, try again"

I've tried the DEL key, RMB -> Delete NOTHING WORKS.

I am about ready to put my fist through my monitors!!

 

I'm pissed, this is BFS!!!

 

Please help!

 

5 replies

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dschenken1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 5, 2018

Since this is not typical - and if rebooting doesn't fix this and it happens in more than one part, then


Close Creo and add "graphics win32_gdi" to the config.pro file and restart Creo.

 

This will help diagnose a case where the lines are being deleted but the graphics software is still showing them, which would cause then to be an "invalid selection"

 

If that doesn't help, then you should prepare a case with PTC.

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ILoveMadoka1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 5, 2018

I don't think that is it.

The lines ARE there. I can select them.

They just will not delete.

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GaryLinscheid15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
April 5, 2018

Is it possible there is a relation in the sketch or somewhere that needs to be deleted before the lines can be deleted?

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ILoveMadoka1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 5, 2018

If there is a relation, you get an onscreen error stating that a relation exists...

That was not the case.

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23-Emerald III
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
April 5, 2018

It might help if you include a screenshot of what you talking about. Include the entire Creo screen so we can get a context of what mode you are working in. Or attach the model.

You could also "save" the sketch (it saves sketches as .sec files), open it independently. Once saved out, it's not connected to the original sketch but it may help you diagnose the problem. 

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ILoveMadoka1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 5, 2018

I missed this post...

I wish I had done that....

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Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
April 5, 2018

Can you share the data?

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ILoveMadoka1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 5, 2018

Unfortunately, I cannot.

 

Plus, if you can delete it, that still doesn't help me.. 😕

 

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23-Emerald III
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
April 5, 2018

Are there any error messages displayed when trying to delete the lines?

Do you have any sketcher relations?

With no information and nothing to look at, it's all just guessing.

 

Is the sketch related to downstream features?

 

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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
April 5, 2018

I have seen these things before.  I assume that it's because Intent Manager can't resolve the sketch if that entity is gone.  I've had luck with deleting that entity's constraints first or the references that it is tied to so that it's more "free".  Sometimes I end up deleting things I want to keep so I can free up the problematic entity and then I put those constraints back.

 

Unfortunately, without a screenshot it's hard to be more specific.

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