delete issue after re-capture design history

[rsunghun]

Hi.

I've been working without capturing design history for a while. 

I turned on capture design history from the top component. 

Now if I select a body and delete it, it will delete everything.

If I delete the history icon above, 

this icon(base feature) shows up and I can't delete this history. 

all the bodies in a component will be deleted if I delete a body.

I just want to be able to delete a body.

How do you solve this?

Thank you very much. 

[jeff_strater]

@rsunghun - can you share an example here?  You should be able to delete a single body from the browser and not delete everything.  The icon in your top image is a "timeline group" object.  It can be expanded to show more timeline features underneath.  If you try to delete the group, you can either:

1. delete just the group and expand its contents
2. delete the group and its contents

It sounds as if you chose the last option, which will, in fact, do what it says and delete everything in that group

[rsunghun]

Thank you for the reply.

In fact I have chose 'delete group and expand its contents'.

By doing this I will get 'base feature' in timeline.

If I try to delete 'base feature' from the timeline it will delete a component.

If I try to delete a body then it will delete all the bodies in a component.

I could replicate this issue. I have attached a f3d file. Please take a look.

Thank you very much.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

this is the way that Delete works in a parametric design.  Delete of a body or component is interpreted as "permanently delete the features that created this body".  In this case, when there is a Base Feature that owns more than one body, deleting one will delete that Base Feature, which will delete all the bodies owned by that feature.  That is why the Remove feature exists - this creates a timeline feature that just removes the selected bodies or components.  For a more in-depth discussion, see this thread:  what-is-the-difference-between-delete-and-remove-a-component 

[rsunghun]

Thank you so much for the solution. Now I understand what was happening.

I have an another question. Is there a way to remove the 'base feature' history from the timeline?

It seems like it deletes a whole component if I try to delete the 'base feature' from the timeline.

The reason is that It seems like the remove command does not have a short cut and I keep deleting the whole thing by pressing delete.

Thank you for the solution.