Stray sketch items

[dogolearn]

Hi-

I have some stray sketch features and strange things like extra geometry origin graphics. I'm not sure what they are or how they got there, but I'd like to get rid of them.

I have shared my project. I hope this link works:  https://a360.co/3AelHSL

Also, I'll attach a screen shot.

Thanks,

Dave

[ELAFING]

They are turned on inside your linked components. 

[dogolearn]

OK, so I'll look in the linked component file.  I still have my question, though. When I get to that file, I have to edit sketches to remove the unwanted sketch content. I don't know how to tell which sketch items I need to keep and which it is OK to delete.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

There is no download enabled in your attachment.
If you use a personal licence, choose this way* or allow the download

What do you want to achieve?

*Please share the file.

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

günther

[dogolearn]

now with files attached. Thanks for helping me to learn how to share my work. I think it is very worthwhile .

[jeff_strater]

a couple of ways to do this:

1. just find and turn them off.  Doing this, though, only overrides them in the top-level design - those things are still visible in the external design, and if you insert it elsewhere, they will show
2. use edit-in-place to turn them off in the external design.  This will turn them off for good in that design

either way works...

[dogolearn]

Wow. It took me a minute to understand what we're doing: making those sketches invisible.  Slick. Quick.  It certainly solved my issue.  It does leave me wondering: what if I wanted to really get rid of those stray, unconsumed sketch elements.  Sort of a purist approach.  They really shouldn't be there.  However, when I tried to delete them for good, I quickly began removing sketch elements that I really needed.  Whoops.  my features that were derived from them started vanishing. Yikes! So, is there a way to find and delete the sketch pieces that are no longer needed and be sure I was leaving the one's that were necessary?

[ELAFING]

Under preferences/design/auto hide sketch on feature creation. 

[jeff_strater]

@dogolearn - there is no way to automatically find unreferenced sketch geometry.  Would be a good tool, I think.  Some enterprising developer could probably write an API script to do this.  But, for most of us, that tool would go unused.  Eventually, you develop a workflow where you don't create as much unnecessary geometry.  One way to limit this, IMO, is to disable, "auto project edges on reference":

this setting can cause edges in your model to be projected into the active sketch, resulting in a lot of sometimes unnecessary geometry (and references, which then become brittle if the geometry changes).

[dogolearn · Accepted solution]

Thanks, everyone for the terrific help. Please mark my question answered and kudos to the responders.

-Dave