Group features

I have a group of about 10 features. Now the next-to-last feature of
the group (a surface merge) is failing and if I use clip/suppress of
course the whole group is suppressed. I would like to be just before
the failed feature in the tree but I can't because it's in the middle
of a group. And I can't ungroup it when it's suppressed. I don't want
to start again and create the whole group. Does anyone know if it's
possible to ungroup it or to insert before the failed feature?

 

Normally you can just drag stuff in and out of groups, but if
something in a group fails you tend to be stuffed as you can't do
feature ops on anything in the group.

 

Can you use "quick fix - redefine" instead of "clip/suppress" and make
something out of that failed feature. Of course, it doesnt have to fixed in
a way you wanted originaly. Just do what you can to make it able to
regenerate.

Tomislav Cabraja

 

I believe if you use fix model instead of quick fix, you can drag
features out of the group then repair them.

I don't know the for sure answer, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was Greg's because Fix Model is the one you use in Resolve Mode when some earlier feature is the cause of a later failure where redefining the feature can't solve the earlier problem.

David Janes

 

Thanks all.

Thomislav - I tried Quick Fix first up but couldn't get the surface
merge to work. The surfs were touching edge to edge so there were no
arrows telling me which side to keep, hence there was only one way to
do it.

Dave and Greg - I got to regen by using Fix Model and redefining one
of the surfaces from the failed surface merge. I removed tangency from
one of the boundaries and it was then able to merge with the other
surface. Of course I don't know why, there was no Failed Geom to tell
me anything. But at least I could regen the group, then ungroup the
bloody thing and sort it out one by one.