Unexpected behaviour when trying to delete all polygons of an object

[sscheffers]

Hi,

Create a cube in Maya 2015, or 2016, go into component mode and delete all polygons.

Result is there is always 1 polygon left.

If you divide this left over polygon into smaller pieces and try to delete all these pieces,

there will still be a (smaller polygon) left. You can repeat this ad infinitum (if you're really bored).

Is this normal behaviour?

I never ever seen this in 3dsmax and I also don't seem to remember that in any older versions of Maya.

First time I noticed this I thought I created a model with bad geometry, like dubble faces or edges and spend quite a while trying to figure out what I did wrong.

So in that sense it's "unexpected" and dare I say it "unwanted" behaviour.

Can somebody confirm that this is "normal" Maya behaviour.

Regards

Stefan Scheffers

[RickFalck]

This is normal from my understanding. You can't have a polygon object with zero polygons. Why delete all the faces and not just delete the object?

[pshwayka]

What is interesting is that if you go into edge mode and select everything, you can delete all the polygons...but as Rick pointed out, you probably wouldn't want to...

[tony.su]

I don't understand why you want keep a shape node without any Vertex, Edge or Face?

If you select and delete all edge, you can delete everything. But why?