How To Delete An Extrusion?

[Anonymous]

Another noobie question...

I want to delete an extrusion.  Just fill it in and act like it was never there.  I know I could cut it with a plane.. But is there a simpler way?

Screencast: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/e0b41fcb-f136-4244-9f9e-6ceaa3056812

File: http://a360.co/2k9xZpN

(When I try and imbed the screencast I get an invalid html forum error)

[laughingcreek]

since your time line is on, good practice would be to find the extrusion in the time line and either edit it, or delete it.

you can also select all the faces associated with the extrude and delete them.  Fusion will heal the model back. this will place another feature in your timeline of course.  Making it messier. which is why it is better to edit the original extrude instead.

[Anonymous]

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@laughingcreek wrote:

since your time line is on, good practice would be to find the extrusion in the time line and either edit it, or delete it.

you can also select all the faces associated with the extrude and delete them.  Fusion will heal the model back. this will place another feature in your timeline of course.  Making it messier. which is why it is better to edit the original extrude instead.

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Thank you for the reply.  I may have complicated things by creating a mirror image of the body on the other end of my model.  I am editing the mirror.  The extrusion was done on the original body.  And I don't want to delete that.

My timeline is extreme;y messy as I am stumbling my way thru this first attempt with Fusion 360.  I will try deleting the faces.

[edit] When I try selecting the faces and deleting them, I get "Deletion cause downstream feature failures".

[laughingcreek]

is your timeline marker all the way at the end?  make sure it's all the way at the end before deleting faces.

[laughingcreek]

I took a closer look at your model.  You are correct, your timeline is very messy.  one option to salvage this model would be to convert it to a DM model by turning off the time line.  this will erase your history.  You can turn the time line back on if you want to put future edits in the time line again.

Here's a screen cast

[Anonymous]

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@laughingcreek wrote:

I took a closer look at your model.  You are correct, your timeline is very messy.  one option to salvage this model would be to convert it to a DM model by turning off the time line.  this will erase your history.  You can turn the time line back on if you want to put future edits in the time line again.

Here's a screen cast

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Thank you so much for your reply.  I think that is what I'll do - switch to direct modelling to finish this up.

I'm sure I'll be back with more questions..