- [Instructor] Deleting items in SolidWorks
might seem simple, but there's actually a few tricks to it.
So let me show you how they all work.
So if you want to delete something like a sketch,
you can click on that item itself,
and you can hit Delete on your keyboard,
which is pretty straightforward and self-explanatory.
But if you want to bring it back,
we've got this little arrow here
which is the Undo command or Control + Z on your keyboard.
Hit that, and it brings it right back.
Now, if you want to delete more than one item at a time,
you can create or drag a window around those items.
So over here, if I click on the upper left-hand corner
and drag a little window around these items here,
notice they get highlighted.
Of course, I can hit Delete on my keyboard,
or I can right-click here and it brings up this window,
and I can come down here and say Delete.
Pretty straightforward.
Let's go back here and hit the Undo command one more time.
Now, I do want to point out how I created that window.
I came from the upper left-hand corner,
and I held down my left mouse button
and then drug a window around those items,
and notice they are both highlighted.
But notice that bottom left corner here
was actually over this circle here.
Let me try it one more time.
So watch, this left corner of that box
is over that other circle,
but it's not being highlighted, but watch this.
If I actually start from the bottom right-hand corner
and I go up to the upper left-hand corner,
notice this one gets selected, as well.
So anything that is touching that selection box
will automatically be highlighted
if you go from the lower right to the upper left.
Notice it was a green box.
If you go from the upper left to the bottom right,
it's a blue box, and it has to be fully inside of the box.
So either way, I can hit Delete on my keyboard
to get rid of those items, and they're gone.
All right, so we have multiple ways to delete things
inside of SolidWorks.
Click over here, hit Delete Window around this thing here,
right click, and say Delete.
Couple of options here.
Now, what if I did a whole bunch of work,
and I want to undo it?
Now, of course I can hit Undo a bunch of times,
but there's actually a dropdown next to the Undo command.
Click on that one there.
And you can actually see
those are the three deletes that I did.
So I can delete one of those items,
or I can bring all three back.
So I can go three steps back in my deleting,
hit that, and bring everything back in one shot.
Now, if you didn't really want to do that,
you can go over here under Edit.
And you can see here, we've got the redo command, as well.
So we can undo, we can also redo.
So it's Control + Y on your keyboard, as well,
so hit that and it's going to bring it away or take it away.
Same thing, I can take these things individually
and redo that work one more time.
Of course, hit Undo a couple times,
and that will bring it back, as well.
So a couple different ways you can delete things
on your keyboard
as well as undo and redo inside of SolidWorks.