# Disconnect sketch from body
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/disconnect-sketch-from-body/34868
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [October 17, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/disconnect-sketch-from-body/34868 "2024-10-17T13:33:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Horsthorst](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Horsthorst)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/disconnect-sketch-from-body/34868/1 "2024-10-17T13:33:06Z")
Hello everybody,
I‘d like to ask for help to solve a problem described below:
When I create a body (3D) out of a sketch (2D) and move the body aside, the sketch seems to be still connected to the figure, because when trying to delete the sketch also the body disappears.
Is there a function I can disconnect the sketch from the body as it was usual in previous versions of the app?
Thank you very much!
Jan
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### Author:  [@Lys](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Lys)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/disconnect-sketch-from-body/34868/2 "2024-10-17T13:41:25Z")
Try to [merge history steps](https://support.shapr3d.com/hc/en-us/articles/14034235963036-5-620-Merge-History-steps)
Let me know how it goes 😄
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### Author:  [@jean-philippe2](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jean-philippe2)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2024, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/disconnect-sketch-from-body/34868/3 "2024-10-18T10:29:57Z")
Hide sketches ? or Isolate
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### Author:  [@Horsthorst](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Horsthorst)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/disconnect-sketch-from-body/34868/4 "2024-10-18T12:47:19Z")
Isolate. So that I can change the sketch without changing the linked body automatically that was constructed out of the sketch.
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### Author:  [@Horsthorst](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Horsthorst)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2024, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/disconnect-sketch-from-body/34868/5 "2024-10-20T10:54:02Z")
Hi everyone,
I‘d like to add another example for that issue that still appears here.
Before, let me describe the situation again please: I use sketches to create a body and also to shape it, for example to „cut“ a 45 degree edge our of a cubistic figure. All those actions did not cause any trouble since I updated on the newest version.
To describe it more visually:
I draw some simple body (step 1) of that I want to cut out a triangle (step 2). When I did so an want to delete the sketch (step 3) the body jumps back to the original shape (step 4).
That’s another sample of what I mean when I see that the sketches are some how linked to the body. As explained, there were no problems at all with these simple tasks before… ☹
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### Author:  [@eaglekatarina](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/eaglekatarina)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/disconnect-sketch-from-body/34868/6 "2025-05-11T00:42:38Z")
We are able to delete certain constraints like the pattern tool, or perpendicular rules on it. It should be the same idea - just delete the connection from the sketch. Click it, it highlights the body you’re deleting the connection to, then boom, you’re good.
This also happened when I mirrored a body, I could not delete that sketch to clean up my space.