New to Inventor 2022 - deleted extrusion but cannot delete sketch

[merkamp]

Help!  Just recently updated to Inventor 2022.  With Inventor 2020, when you deleted an extrusion, you were prompted as to whether or not to delete the associated sketch.  Now, with Inventor 2022, I deleted an extrusion, but there was no prompt asking about the sketch.  And I am unable delete the sketch.  There is no "delete" listed when I right-click on the sketch.  How do I delete the no longer wanted sketch?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[merkamp · Accepted solution]

Never mind.  There was another feature associated with the sketch.  Once I deleted that feature, I was able to delete the sketch.  D'oh!

[jtylerbc]

Yes, that's the most common reason for not being able to delete the sketch.  If it is shared with another feature, it won't let you delete it.

In fact, if it is marked as a Shared Sketch, deleting the feature won't delete the sketch even if no other feature actually makes use of the sharing.  In that case, the sketch can be deleted individually, but won't be automatically deleted when you delete the feature.  This sometimes comes up if you had previously been sharing a sketch with a feature that has since been deleted.  The sketch would still be marked as Shared, even though the feature it was being shared with is now gone.