Undoing a part

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Undoing a part

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I have created a body from some boolean and revolving operations. Can I undo the part and return back to some point in the beginning of the creation process?
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Re: Undoing a part

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Krischu wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:14 pm I have created a body from some boolean and revolving operations. Can I undo the part and return back to some point in the beginning of the creation process?
I suspect from your question we should have a talk about the differences between Part and Part Design...and the recommendation not to mix them.
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https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Part_and_PartDesign
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Re: Undoing a part

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Krischu wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:14 pm I have created a body from some boolean and revolving operations. Can I undo the part and return back to some point in the beginning of the creation process?
It depends on how many undo steps you have configured. But you can always delete all subsequent operations/features.
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Re: Undoing a part

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in general, 99.9% of the cases, you cannot delete or redo operations in the tree structure, all the more so if you have mixed Part and PartDesign
you have to "go up" the whole tree of the last operation, until the one you have to change
and do it all again, sorry for the lost job
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Re: Undoing a part

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papyblaise wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:49 pm in general, 99.9% of the cases, you cannot delete or redo operations in the tree structure, all the more so if you have mixed Part and PartDesign
I cannot confirm this, at least not if you build your models properly. Have a look at this page, especially the paragraph about creating stable models.

My estimation is that in 9 of 10 cases I have no problems changing a previous step.
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Re: Undoing a part

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papyblaise wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:49 pm in general, 99.9% of the cases, you cannot delete or redo operations in the tree structure
I also can not confirm this. The last time i had issues with with deleting, was around 0.17 with PDN, and that was pretty rare. And with the undo functions i have very rare issues and if, then maybe with the unparametric or draft functions.

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Re: Undoing a part

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Sometimes I have noticed Undo and Redo fail in the sketcher. I have taken to deleting the last things added instead of using undo.
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Re: Undoing a part

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TheMarkster wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:55 pm Sometimes I have noticed Undo and Redo fail in the sketcher. I have taken to deleting the last things added instead of using undo.
It is known that there are issues e.g. with deleting external references. Did you encounter issues in other context too?
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Re: Undoing a part

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I will need to notice when it happens again how to reproduce.
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Re: Undoing a part

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TheMarkster wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:55 pm Sometimes I have noticed Undo and Redo fail in the sketcher. I have taken to deleting the last things added instead of using undo.
when you add geometry with auto constraints the first undo removes the auto created constrain and a second undo is needed to remove the geometry, maybe this makes you think its failing...
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