How can you delete a Component?

[hassan2516]

I am using the CombineCut tool to create a new component by setting the isNewComponent to True.  I cannot figure out how to delete the new component from the browser at the end of the script.  I can delete the new Body by using newBody.deleteMe() but there is no deleteMe method on Components.  How can you delete a Component?

Thanks,

Scott

Here is a snippet of my code:

CombineCutInput = rootComp.features.combineFeatures.createInput(targetBody, toolBodies)

CombineCutInput.operation = adsk.fusion.FeatureOperations.IntersectFeatureOperation

CombineCutInput.isKeepToolBodies = True

CombineCutInput.isNewComponent = True

ret = rootComp.features.combineFeatures.add(CombineCutInput)

newBody = ret.bodies.item(0)

newComponent = newBody.parentComponent

newBody.deleteMe()

[BrianEkins · Accepted solution]

It's not a component that you see in the browser but is an occurrence that references a component. Components can't be directly deleted but the Occurence object supports the deleteMe method and if all the occurrences that reference a particular component are deleted, Fusion will automatically delete the component. 

[hassan2516 · Accepted solution]

Ahhh...  that did the trick.  Here is the code to remove the component by using the rootComp and searching for the newly created component.

Thanks,

Scott

ret = rootComp.features.combineFeatures.add(CombineCutInput)

newBody = ret.bodies.item(0)

## delete the newly created component from the intersection

newComponent = newBody.parentComponent

for occurrence in rootComp.occurrencesByComponent(newComponent):

     occurrence.deleteMe()

[hassan2516]

I went one step further by making a class method on Component called deleteMe so that you can just call deleteMe on a component to delete it.

Scott

def component_deleteMe(self):

  app = adsk.core.Application.get()

  product = app.activeProduct

  design = adsk.fusion.Design.cast(product)

  rootComp = design.rootComponent

  for occurrence in rootComp.occurrencesByComponent(self):

    occurrence.deleteMe()

adsk.fusion.Component.deleteMe = component_deleteMe