How do I delete nodes?
 

I have 433 "delete component" nodes and they are slowing down Maya alot (it takes several minutes to do anything)

So I open the attribute editor, select one of the hundreds of "delete component" nodes, and then i click on the "attributes" drop down window and select "delete attribute". A "delete attribute" window pops-up but nothing happens, the node is still there.

Can someone explain to me how it's done?

thx for any help.

you should just be able to select it and hit teh "delete' keyboard key.

Try running a File > Optimize Scene Size.

I tried the optimize scene option but it didn't work. :(

what window do i have to be in to do that?

are you talking about history? Edit > Delete by Type > History.

cool.

so i deleted the history and now it's running as smooth as butter! :)

will there be any negative effects due to the history being gone?

deleting history "bakes" whatever changes that have been done into the model... so for example, if I were to perform a Smooth on a poly object, I could raise or lower the number of divisions in that smooth as much as I wanted later on if the history was still present... after deleting history, whatever state that smooth modifier was in is then "final."