ERASE(nged)

💖 ERASE(nged) — the glow-up edition 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the nged manual, and it's about ✨removing things from your screen✨ in MGED (the display, not the database — important, iykyk). She's not deleting your geometry, she's just clearing the vibes off your view. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

erase — deletes the specified list of objects from the MGED display. literally just ✨un-displaying✨ them, no cap. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

erase object [object ...]
erase -r object [object ...]
erase -A attr value [attr value ...]
erase -o -A attr value [attr value ...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Deletes the specified objects from the MGED display. Simple concept, iconic execution. 👑

Without options, each named object or displayed path is removed from the current display. So like, whatever you name, it's gone from the screen. 💨

The -r option erases all displayed paths associated with the named objects. All of them. Every path tied to that object, bye. 🫶

The -A option switches erase into attribute-selection mode. In that form, arguments are interpreted as attribute name/value pairs and all matching objects are erased from the display. So instead of naming objects, you're like "erase everything that matches this vibe" and it just does. 🧚

By default all specified pairs must match. The -o option changes attribute mode so that matching any one of the supplied pairs is sufficient. So default is AND, and -o is OR. Not me explaining boolean logic in a group chat but here we are. 💀

⚠️ heads up bestie: -o only means anything in attribute mode (with -A). That's the whole plot twist.

💜 EXAMPLES 💜

The example shows the use of the erase command to delete two objects from the MGED display. Two! Because one is never enough. ✨

🍓 Example 1. Delete specified objects from the MGED display

mged> erase region1 shapea
    Deletes region1 and shapea from the MGED display.

Deletes region1 and shapea from the MGED display. Slay, bye bye. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — the main characters fr fr. 💖

🌈 BUG REPORTS 🌈

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org. Don't suffer in silence, bestie, tell the devs. 📧🫶

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ok that's the whole page, every flag accounted for, nothing skipped, no invented lore, promise. 🤞

🎀 sign-off: this iconic little page comes courtesy of BRL-CAD — ERASE(nged) — so go forth and clear your display with main character energy. 💅✨🌷