# History - deleting sketches

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/history-deleting-sketches/40444>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [March 5, 2026, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/history-deleting-sketches/40444 "2026-03-05T05:08:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![spencersmitty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/spencersmitty/32/35302_2.png) [@spencersmitty](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/spencersmitty)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/history-deleting-sketches/40444/1 "2026-03-05T05:08:40Z")

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hi, i just realized you can merge history and unlink sketches.. pretty sweet. anyways, there are some sketches that i’d like to keep around so i checked ‘Keep Sketches’ before merging. i figured that merging in the future and checking ‘Delete Sketches’ would keep the previous merged batch of sketches i kept, but it actually deleted them… i think it just targeted all sketches in the project no matter what for deletion, so i just did a quick undo to get them back.

soo… how do i go about this? when merging in the future, i dont wanna remove old sketches that i kept from a previous merge, just the ones i most recently made in the current history list. does this make sense? sorry its hard to explain.

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**Author:** ![shaprvision](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@shaprvision](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/shaprvision)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 4:59am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/history-deleting-sketches/40444/2 "2026-03-07T04:59:56Z")

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Don’t check delete sketches. Manually delete the ones that you want to delete. There isn’t any other way.

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**Author:** ![spencersmitty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/spencersmitty/32/35302_2.png) [@spencersmitty](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/spencersmitty)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/history-deleting-sketches/40444/3 "2026-03-07T05:49:49Z")

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isn’t any other way… yet 😉

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**Author:** ![shaprvision](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@shaprvision](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/shaprvision)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 6:18am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/history-deleting-sketches/40444/4 "2026-03-07T06:18:03Z")

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