Remove joints

Note

You can only remove one joint at a time.
You can not remove a root joint.
You can remove joints from the skeleton of a character with a bound skin without having to detach its skin.

To remove a joint

The joint is deleted from your scene and the bone of the joint above the removed joint now connects to the joint below the removed joint.

If you removed a joint from the skeleton of a bound character, the character’s bind pose automatically adjusts and its skin history is retained.

To remove a parent joint and all its children

Select the joint that you want to remove.
-click the joint and select Actions > Unparent from the marking menu that appears.
The bone between the current joint and its parent joint is removed.
Press .

The current joint and all its child joints are deleted from your scene.