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Some parts end up with a load of redundant sketches and work features which are essentially orphans, unused, empty, junk, it would be nice to be able to purge these out in one swoop to keep the browser tidy.
An option in the modelling tree that 'cleans up' your history.
Right click on the tree and choose 'cleanup'. Any unused or empty sketches are deleted, along with any orphan work features that don't do anything or have any dependents.
Also an option to turn off visibility on all sketches and all work features (planes, axis, etc) with one click.
@inflateable, a quick search for "purge" brings up this Idea as second in the list: Purge Unused Sketches & Work Features, which already has 98 votes. I would recommend voting for the original idea to help get your suggestion recognized (and always doing a search first before posting a new Idea).
One word of caution regarding this. I very often have Sketches and Work Features in my Parts which aren't used for any downstream Part features, but which ARE used at the Assembly-level or even in a Derived Part.
So just because a sketch or work feature appears to be "unused" doesn't mean that deleting it won't result in a very messed up model somewhere else.
Maybe it would be useful if we could right-click certain sketches and work features and mark them as "Used in Assembly" or "Skeleton Feature". This would not only be helpful in communicating to other designers that the sketch or work feature is used somewhere else, but it could also communicate to the proposed Purge tool that those features should not be deleted when cleaning up the Part.
No problem, that happens sometimes. Thanks for searching first you can't delete it but eventually the moderators will notice it and merge it in with the original. Cheers!
This is a brilliant Idea, mainly because the 3 solid works users that I employed over the last 3 years seem to make a million work planes that are not used for anything in models. 🙂
I would love to see this implemented not only in part files but in the assembly environment as well. I sometimes open large assemblies where I find that someone else filled the browser full of work features for use in all sorts of bad constraint practices. They (or someone else) then re-constrained things in a more appropriate manner but left all of the orphaned work features.
Here's a related idea I just created that may interest some of you: "External Dependencies" checker for parameters and work geometry. This would be a great pre-check before running a purge tool (or, better yet, a great check to have integrated into the purge tool itself), to make sure you're not deleting something that's used by downstream components.
@Neil_Cross@DRoam@ASklarEKLL3@johngrimshaw2 , as to the exported status of sketch & work features, can we consider them as unused objects? Maybe the status is just status, and it is not really exported via derive or other workflow.
As to the parameters, if the parameter in the sketch is referenced by other parameter or exported, can we consider this sketch as unused object? Currently the parameter is exported, and the custom properties linked to the parameter will be created. When purge unused parameters, this kind of parameters will be considered as unused parameter. Is it expected by you?
If possible, can you share the idea with us? Really appreciate!
This idea has been implemented within Autodesk Inventor 2023.2. Please review the Inventor 2023.2 What's New article here, for more information regarding how you can purge unused sketches and work features from your designs. Special thanks to everyone who cast a vote for it.
