Delete Entities
Remove entities from the model.
- Select entities.
- Right-click and select Delete from the context menu or press Delete on the keyboard.
- If a component or multibody is present in more than one assembly in the model, you have the choice of deleting that item from the database or deleting it from the present location only.
- If the selected item has "children" associated to it, the children are
retained and only the entity is deleted.
For example, if a contact has a surface and node set associated with it, and the contact is deleted, only the contact card image is deleted. The surface and node set associated with it are retained. This is the same at both folder and individual entity level.
Find and Delete Unused Entities
Preview and delete unused property collectors, material collectors, curves, and so on.
Available for the following entities types: System, Property, Curve, Material, Parameter, Block, Box, Encryption, Features, Field, Region, Contact Surf, Ply, Include file, Set.
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Do one of the following:
- Select valid entities in either the Model Browser or Solver Browser,
then right-click and select Unused from the context
menu.Tip: You can select several entity types at the same time.
- Select valid entities in the modeling window, then right-click and select from the context menu.
- From the Validate ribbon, click the Unused tool.
- Select valid entities in either the Model Browser or Solver Browser,
then right-click and select Unused from the context
menu.
- In the dialog, select unused entities then click Delete.
Find and Delete Empty Collectors
Preview and delete empty collectors.
Available for the following entities types: Assembly, Beam Section Collector, Component, Control Volume (OptiStruct), Group, Load Collector, Load Step, Multibody, Output Block, Set, System Collector, Vector Collector, Accelerometer, Position(Abaqus), Ply, Feature, Field, Region, Include file, Cross-Section, Plot, ConstrainedRigidBody.
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Do one of the following:
- Select valid entities in either the Model Browser or Solver Browser,
then right-click and select Empty from the context
menu.Tip: You can select several entity types at the same time.
- Select valid entities in the modeling window, then right-click and select from the context menu.
- From the Validate ribbon, click the Empty tool.
- Select valid entities in either the Model Browser or Solver Browser,
then right-click and select Empty from the context
menu.
- In the dialog, select empty collectors then click Delete.
Delete Components and Unique Associations
Display a comprehensive preview of the entities uniquely related to components that can also be deleted.
Available for Components in the Abaqus, OptiStruct, Nastran, and LS-DYNA user profiles.