How to delete a sketch pattern ?

[Anonymous]

Dear forum members,

Imagine one has made a sketch pattern of many elements, does not need it anymore and doesn't want to spend time selecting and deleting all the individual elements. Is there a fast way to delete the whole pattern ?

[davebYYPCU]

Window Select, 

or Delete sketch, 

not working for you?

[Anonymous]

Window Select selects too much.

Delete sketch deletes too much.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

The fastest way has already been suggested, delete the sketch.  If you want to remove just the sketch pattern, it will take you a couple of steps.  Take a look at the Screencast.  If you switch to using a model pattern, and you use the timeline, you can remove the pattern in one click from the timeline.  Fusion 360 performs better with model patterns than sketch patterns also.

[Anonymous]

Reducing the number of instances in the patern looks like a procedure that should work and that I should have thought of myself. Alas, it does not. No pattern constraint symbol is visible. I remember I could make one appear before, but not anymore. Also, I am able to modify the pattern instances independently. I suspect the pattern constraint has been deleted.