Delete drawing objects
You can delete drawings, and some of the drawing objects inside the drawings.
Note: You cannot delete building
objects in a drawing, such as parts, bolts, welds, chamfers, reinforcing
bars, or surface treatment; all changes to building objects are made in the
model.
For more information about various drawing object types, see Drawing objects, views, and layouts. For details about building objects in drawings, see Show building objects in drawings.
- You can delete the following, for example:
- Annotations: To delete dimensions, marks, notes, and other annotation objects (text objects, sketch objects, .rtf files, symbols, links, hyperlinks, images, DWG/DXF files), select the object and press Delete on the keyboard, or right-click and select Delete. You can also delete marks and notes in Drawing content manager, where you can narrow your selection by selecting certain drawing views, areas or multiple objects and then delete those. You can also delete marks for the parts you specify by using selection filters.
- Views: To delete drawing views: Select the view and press Delete on the keyboard, or right-click and select Delete.
- Tables in layout: You can also delete tables in the drawing layout, such as a material list or revision table. For detailed instructions, see Change table sets in drawings.
- Change symbols: To delete the change symbols (change clouds) for dimensions, marks, and notes, see instructions in Check changed marks, notes and dimensions and remove change symbols
- Drawings: You can also delete unnecessary drawings through Document manager. For more information, see Delete drawings and file documents.
- You can also hide objects from drawing views or from drawings,
where the objects remain in the drawing but are hidden. For detailed
instructions, see Show and hide drawing
objects. The selected object and all its related objects are
hidden, and shown as ghost outlines in color drawings.
Note that if an object is hidden in drawing views, the object will not be printed.
- You might also want to change the visibility of some of the objects so that they are not visible in the drawing. Take a look at the drawing and view level properties for various objects, such as parts, surface treatment, reinforcement, model welds, and reference objects, and check the available visibility settings.