About Deleting or Suppressing Features with Embedded Datums

When you delete or suppress a feature that has embedded datum features, you can delete or suppress the embedded datums before deleting or suppressing the main feature.

When you select a feature, and right-click and choose the

Delete or

Suppress commands, the feature and all its children are selected. You must confirm the deletion or suppression of the feature along with its children in the standard Delete or Suppress confirmation dialog box. This confirmation dialog box displays the additional Options button only when the feature that is being deleted or suppressed or the automatically selected children include embedded datum features.

You can choose to retain the embedded datum features while deleting the main feature. The retained embedded datums are converted to standalone datums after the main feature is deleted. If you do not retain the embedded datums while deleting the main feature, the following embedded datums of the feature are deleted:

• Datums that are embedded in a feature, but this main feature is a child of the main feature selected for deletion.

The option to retain the embedded datum features is available when deleting a feature that has embedded datums or when deleting a feature whose children have embedded datums. It is not available while suppressing a feature with embedded datums.

When the feature selected for deletion or suppression includes embedded datum features and is also a parent of another main feature with embedded datums, you can selectively delete or suppress the embedded datum features in the Children Handling dialog box that opens for such features. The Children Handling dialog box does not list the embedded datums of the main feature that is a child of another main feature although it lists this main feature that is a child of the other main feature. The delete and suppress operations follow standard Creo functionality.