Release Deleted Members ( Utility Functions )

  • This utility removes deleted members from your current Job. You select from among a system-generated list of all deleted members those particular members that you want to permanently remove. As a result, Undelete Members , Visual Undelete and Quick Undelete will no longer be able to recover those members.
  • Running this utility makes it possible for the member numbers [in brackets] of deleted members to be re-assigned to new members that you subsequently Add in Modeling . In other words, this utility frees up " In Use " space so that you don't have to expand the " Allocated " space using the Change File Sizes utility.
  • Once you have run this utility, you can no longer recover deleted members using Undelete Members , Visual Undelete or Quick Undelete . Also, " Show all " on the drawing selection dialog will no longer show the released member's detail, since the detail will no longer exist.
  • The released member's detail is also removed from its sheet, if it is on a sheet, and if its " Detail complete " date is ' **NOT SET** '.
  • Warning: Since this utility locks and unlocks member files, do not run it when there are other users in your current Job.
  • See the step-by-step instructions .

Also see :

VIDEO The Release Deleted Members utility relates to Quick Undelete , Member Undelete and Visual Undelete in Modeling . Home probably doesn't look like it does in the version of the SDS2 program that you are using, but the utility still works the same. (Recorded in SDS2 Detailing , v7.2.)

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Step-by-step instructions :

1 . Start the Release Deleted Members utility as follows:

1a : Home > Utilities > Utility Functions . If prompted to do so, enter the " Utility Password " that has been set up for your network. Then, on the Utility Functions menu, click " Release Deleted Members ."

2 . If there are no deleted members to release, you will be notified of such, and this operation will end. If there are deleted members to release, you will get a warning like the following:

All sessions using this job must exit before continuing with release of deleted members.
  Members will be processed.
  Continuing will remove the ability to undelete selected members.
    

Alternative 1 : Press the " Continue " button to continue.

Alternative 2 : Press the " Cancel " button to end this operation.

3 . A selection dialog opens with a list of all members that have been deleted. The members are listed by their member number [in brackets] and, if possible, their member piecemark . Members are listed by only their member number if they were deleted before having undergone Create Solids .

 [11]
 [14] B_13
 [22] B_18
 [48] HB_7
 [54] VB_2
No members are listed if you have not deleted any members. Member [11] in this example has not yet been assigned a piecemark.

Alternative 1 : Select those members on this list that you want to permanently remove from your current Job. Go to step 4.

Alternative 2 : Press " Cancel " to end this Release Deleted Members operation without changing anything. Do not continue.

4 . Process and Create Solids takes place, and all the deleted members that you selected in step 3 are removed from your current Job . If the member has been detailed and if its " Detail complete " date is ' **NOT SET** ', the member detail is also removed from your current Job at this time. If that detail has been placed on a sheet, it is removed from the sheet, and that sheet is marked for plotting .

Note: The member numbers [in brackets] of any members that you have deleted may be assigned to newly Added members.

Also see: The node matching phase of Process and Create Solids is the event that removes zero-quantity details from sheets. If you Process and Create Solids before you Release Deleted Members , this means that the zero-quantity details will already have been removed from their sheets before you use this utility.

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