topic Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted. in Fusion Support Forum

Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 01:01:38 GMT

My current project has some features in the timeline that I can't find a way to delete. These features pertain to a body which I have removed from the project. They now appear in the timeline with a red bar across them (see attached screen capture). In the past, I've been able to simply click on a feature to delete it, but the features that are highlighted in red cannot no longer be selected for any action. Any suggestions?

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

jeff_strater — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 01:15:39 GMT

@Anonymous - can you share the model? You should be able to delete these features even if they are to the right of the end of design marker...

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 01:39:58 GMT

Hi Jeff…here’s link to the project. https://a360.co/2JDNNkP

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

jeff_strater — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 02:37:42 GMT

Thanks for sharing the design, @fapalmeri . That is very strange, all right. I've never seen that before - where a feature just cannot be selected at all. I was able to get around it by rolling back past one valid feature, then the "Delete all Features After History Marker" command will get rid of those features. You'd have to re-create the last valid feature, though. We will investigate this further.

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 02:48:58 GMT

Thanks Jeff. At least I’m able to delete the unwanted features with the Delete After Marker command. I was searching for this command and couldn’t find it, but that was because I was not far enough back in the timeline. So thanks for clarifying that you need to be positioned in front of at least one valid feature. I tried it and it worked fine. But as you say, it is strange that those red-highlighted features could not even be selected. Looking forward to hearing what your folks determine is the issue. Thanks again. - Frank

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

mda — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:57:25 GMT

Hello, I'm having this same issue. I've got two extrusions that have no relevance since the sketches and components have been removed, but the extrusion feature itself in the timeline is unselectable and therefore, un-delete-able. These are literally in the middle of a very long timeline for a large assembly so I'm wary of doing anything that will have a detrimental affect on the assembly.

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

k.huxmann — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:01:52 GMT

Hi,

I am having a very similar issue where features in timeline (components, extrusions, filets, etc) cannot be deleted. the only way to delete them I found was to "delete everyting right of the timeline marker" which in many cases in not an option.

Any work around for this?

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

jeff_strater — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:06:38 GMT

@k.huxmann , @Anonymous - you do not have to delete anything - just roll the end of design marker before the Remove features, and you should be able to select, edit, delete any features that belong to those components.

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

metd01567 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:36:24 GMT

I just ran into this problem after editing a feature removed the face used in a subsequent draft operation. The draft became unselectable/uneditable. I would have lost 90% of the design with "delete all features after".

Maybe I didn't understand that last suggestion, but I think I did something similar. I rolled the timeline forward past the next component creation, and the offending feature became selectable and editable again. It was consistent, when I rolled back and forth the problem reappeared and disappeared. I was able to delete the invalid feature and move on.

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

ofonime.william — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:55:23 GMT

Great idea, but unfortunately your approach doesn't work all the time. Mine is as stubborn as it gets (the 3D fillet i used became un-selectable, un-editable), and I will lose 97% of my work if I use the very first approach suggested by Jeff. Strater.

I am stuck.

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

g-andresen — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:12:22 GMT

Hi,

please open a new thread and share the file

File > export > save as f3d on local drive > attach it to post

günther

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

webster354 — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 04:25:15 GMT

Thanks this workaround was helpful.

I created a placeholder sketch (to make the last valid feature).
Right clicked the placeholder sketch and then clicked "Delete all features after history marker."
Deleted placeholder sketch.

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

dotyman — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:20:52 GMT

I had the same problem today. A Rigid Group feature failed and could not be deleted no matter where the marker was.

What worked for me was to go back in the timeline and identify what I had removed earlier (Fusion created a "Remove" feature instead of deleting the operation) and restoring it by deleting the Remove feature. This allowed me to delete the failed Rigid Group. I then went back and re-removed the feature (still could not fully delete it).

I'm assuming that there are further features later in the Timeline that reference the Rigid Group, which would explain why I can't fully delete it. As I work down the Timeline I'll try to identify which features still reference the Rigid Group and delete those in the same manner. Ultimately, I'm hoping, once all the referencing features are deleted I will then be able to fully delete the unwanted original feature.

Hope this helps!

Dotyman

Re: Certain features in Timeline can't be deleted.

tiedec — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:29:12 GMT

I had a similar problem - a feature in red that had no context menu when I right clicked it in the timeline. Reading this thread was a wealth of information but none of that worked for me.

I thought that if I could move the offending feature to the end of the timeline that I could do the "delete everything after this point in the timeline" trick and not lose the bulk of my work. But the feature wouldn't move. What I could move was everything else! I shift+clicked a big range of changes and dragged them to the point just before the bad feature. I did this for a while but I ran into a circular reference error and couldn't move stuff after I got to a certain point. But now the context menu worked and I could delete the bad feature! Whew!