Erase Crane Placements ( Modeling )

Tool summary :

  • Deletes the one or more crane placements that you select. Be careful, there is no undelete.
  • When you Erase Crane Placements , you erase all lifts that have been assigned to the crane placements .
  • If you erase all crane placements that are associated with a crane, you erase that crane also.
  • If you erase the crane placement that a crane is attached to and that crane is associated with another crane placement, the crane will jump to that other crane placement.
  • See the step-by-step instructions .

Also see :

model > crane > | model -- cranes

  Step-by-step instructions :

Before erasing a crane placement, you should Open ( Ctrl + o ) a view in Modeling that shows the placement you want to erase. You must do either step 1 (preselection) or step 3 (in-tool selection) to perform this operation.

1 (optional) : Select the one or more crane placements that you want to erase. There's multiple ways to do this.

Select Items mouse bindings

Method 1 : Move your mouse pointer ( ) over the first crane placement that you want, then left-click ( Select ) to select the crane. Hold down the Shift key and left-click ( Select + ) any additional crane placements that you want to erase.

Method 2 : Set the selection filter (or the toolbar item selection filter ) to ' Crane Placements ', then draw an area box to select crane placements.

Method 3 : In the Model Tree , click the [+] for the " Cranes " category, then click the [+] next to one or more crane name(s), then select the name(s) of the placement(s) you want to erase.

2 . Invoke Erase Crane Placements using any one (1) of the following methods:

Method 1 : Click the Erase Crane Placements icon. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Model -- Cranes ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).

Method 2 : If " Modeling layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose Model > Crane > Erase Crane Placements .

Method 3, 4 or 5 : Erase Crane Placements can also be configured to be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the lightning interface, this configuration is done using Customize Interface .

Method 6 : Right-click ( Menu ) and choose Crane > Erase Crane Placements on the context menu .

3 . Skip this step if you already selected one or more crane placements in step 1.

Select Item(s) mouse bindings

3a (if you didn't do step 1) : The status line prompts you to use Select Item(s) mouse bindings to select the crane placement(s) you want to erase. Press the Enter key or right-click ( Menu ) and choose " OK " on the context menu when you are done selecting crane placements.

4 . Erase Crane Placements erases the crane placements that you selected in step 1 or step 3. Please note the following:

  • If this operation erased all crane placements that are associated with a crane, that crane is erased also.
  • If this operation erased the crane placement that a crane is attached to and that crane is associated with another crane placement, the crane will jump to that other crane placement.

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