# Modeling History Not clean after deleting the body (Beta)

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**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [September 17, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/modeling-history-not-clean-after-deleting-the-body-beta/27975 "2023-09-17T13:36:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![dicksonsham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/dicksonsham/32/22637_2.png) [@dicksonsham](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/dicksonsham)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/modeling-history-not-clean-after-deleting-the-body-beta/27975/1 "2023-09-17T13:36:55Z")

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After selecting and deleting the solid body, i suppose the related commands could be automatically removed from the history tree. But actually in Beta, i can see they still appear on the history tree. It is strange to me. As i remember, in other CAD like solidworks, only the first sketch should be left.

(first picture, before deleting body) (second picture, selecting the solid body) (third picture, after deleting)

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/modeling-history-not-clean-after-deleting-the-body-beta/27975/2 "2023-09-17T20:18:38Z")

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> [@dicksonsham](#):
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> After selecting and deleting the solid body, i suppose the related commands could be automatically removed from the history tree. But actually in Beta, i can see they still appear on the history tree. It is strange to me. As i remember, in other CAD like solidworks, only the first sketch should be left.

It’s a deliberate decision to keep the body’s history and add a “Delete” step, instead of deleting it from the feature tree. This way you can use bodies and other geometries as helper/reference objects, and just delete them when they are no longer needed. If you want to delete a body from the history, just select the body, which will make only the related history steps being displayed in the history panel, select all the steps, and delete them.

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**Author:** ![dicksonsham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/dicksonsham/32/22637_2.png) [@dicksonsham](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/dicksonsham)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/modeling-history-not-clean-after-deleting-the-body-beta/27975/3 "2023-09-18T13:15:25Z")

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Why are “the related history steps still being displayed in the history panel” after deleting the solid body? In which scenerio do we need those history steps?  
Yes, i can select those history steps and delete them manually. But in many cases, i cannot remember which steps were used to create the body, or even cannot identify them when opening other people’s file.

(picture 1 : just select the body only, and delete; picture 2: the result after delete)

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**Author:** ![gex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/gex/32/35639_2.png) [@gex](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/gex)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/modeling-history-not-clean-after-deleting-the-body-beta/27975/4 "2023-09-18T14:10:39Z")

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i believe Istvan meant to delete the the entries from the history panel _instead of_ deleting the body itself. you delete the history entries and the body will disappear as there is no history for that body. i like it this way because later on i can restore bodies i deleted. and in case i accidentally created something i delete the history entries so it’s like it never happened.