# RHINO 6 BUG , deletes all geometry, can't control-z to get it back

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720>\
**Category:** Rhino for Windows\
**Created:** [April 5, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720 "2018-04-05T01:06:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Topsail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/topsail/32/523854_2.png) [@Topsail](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Topsail)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/1 "2018-04-05T01:06:36Z")

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Hi guys, I found a bug today.

Steps to reproduce:

add blockedit to the Options-general-“never repeat these commands” list  
make a change to a block.  
enter another block  
run last command, which will be BlockEditApplyInPlaceEditItemChanges  
exit block.

When you exit the block all geometry in the file will be deleted. Control-z will not bring it back.

Workaround: Add BlockEditApplyInPlaceEditItemChanges to the “never repeat these commands” list

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**Author:** ![pascal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/pascal/32/479395_2.png) [@pascal](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/pascal)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/4 "2018-04-05T02:41:29Z")

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Hello - yep, I see this here in the latest - thanks for the report.

[https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-45362](https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-45362)

-Pascal

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**Author:** ![hoganjasonlee1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/hoganjasonlee1/32/555426_2.png) [@hoganjasonlee1](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/hoganjasonlee1)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/6 "2021-03-17T16:05:01Z")

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This just happened to me in Rhino 7. Is this still not fixed in R7? I will try the workaround. I am still in shock.

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**Author:** ![pascal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/pascal/32/479395_2.png) [@pascal](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/pascal)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/7 "2021-03-17T16:21:06Z")

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Hello - as far as I can see this is fixed - can you please run the `SystemInfo` command in Rhino and copy/paste the results here?

-Pascal

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**Author:** ![hoganjasonlee1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/hoganjasonlee1/32/555426_2.png) [@hoganjasonlee1](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/hoganjasonlee1)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/8 "2021-03-17T16:49:11Z")

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Rhino 7 SR3 2021-2-22 (Rhino 7, 7.3.21053.23031, Git hash:master @ f8a40388712d9cf7edc68910e0415427bdefc64a)  
License type: Educational, build 2021-02-22  
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 10.0.19042 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 64Gb)

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.  
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (NVidia) Memory: 10GB, Driver date: 12-3-2020 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.79  
\> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)  
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0  
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1

OpenGL Settings  
Safe mode: Off  
Use accelerated hardware modes: On  
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 4x  
Mip Map Filtering: Linear  
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation  
Render version: 4.6  
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA  
Driver Date: 12-3-2020  
Driver Version: 27.21.14.6079  
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768  
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits  
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768  
Total Video Memory: 10 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino  
C:\Users\hogan\AppData\Local\Programs\Enscape\Bin64\Enscape.Rhino7.Plugin.dll “Enscape.Rhino7.Plugin” 0.0.21061.1132  
C:\ProgramData\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\Twinmotion Direct Link 2020.2 (e24ee14a-9514-47da-8fe6-f6e61b20160e)\Twinmotion Direct Link 2020.rhp “Twinmotion Direct Link 2020” 1.0.6.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.3.21053.23031  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.3.21053.23031  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk\_etoui.rhp “RDK\_EtoUI” 7.3.21053.23031  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk\_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Alerter.rhp “Alerter”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.3.21053.23031  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.3.21053.23031  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\BlockEdit.rhp “BlockEdit” 7.3.21053.23031  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”

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**Author:** ![pascal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/pascal/32/479395_2.png) [@pascal](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/pascal)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/9 "2021-03-17T17:24:03Z")

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Hello - That should certainly be fixed in that build - I cannot repeat the problem in 7.3, at least so far.  
Are you doing exactly this?

add blockedit to the Options-general-“never repeat these commands” list  
make a change to a block.  
enter another block  
run last command, which will be BlockEditApplyInPlaceEditItemChanges  
exit block.

Just to make sure, can you repeat the problem if Rhino is started in Safe Mode?

Start Rhino in Safe Mode: Windows start menu, type in ‘Rhinoceros’ and look for the ‘Rhinoceros in Safe Mode’ entry.

-Pascal

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**Author:** ![bartosz.kobylakiewic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/bartosz.kobylakiewic/32/630526_2.png) [@bartosz.kobylakiewic](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/bartosz.kobylakiewic)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/10 "2021-04-30T08:28:17Z")

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Unfortunately, the problem still hasn’t been resolved in 7.5… Is there any way we could ask someone to look into that issue?

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**Author:** ![wim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/wim/32/747482_2.png) [@wim](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/wim)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/11 "2021-04-30T10:06:06Z")

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Hi -

> [@bartosz.kobylakiewic](#):
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> Unfortunately, the problem still hasn’t been resolved in 7.5…

Can you provide the exact steps that are need to reproduce this issue?  
-wim

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**Author:** ![bartosz.kobylakiewic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/bartosz.kobylakiewic/32/630526_2.png) [@bartosz.kobylakiewic](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/bartosz.kobylakiewic)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/12 "2021-05-06T14:33:15Z")

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Hi Wim!

Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately I don’t think I can reproduce the issue right now but I remember the last command that ran before everything dissapeared was “BlockEditApplyInPlaceEditItemChanges” (that’s how I found the thread). Just like the author of the thread I was working within block inside a block and once I pressed “Exit” everything disappeared and I could not get the “Ctrl + Z” to bring back any of the geometry that I lost.

For now I added the "BlockEditApplyInPlaceEditItemChanges to “never repeat these command list” as Topsoil suggested 🙂

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**Author:** ![alboranfatoucabello](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/alboranfatoucabello/32/682878_2.png) [@alboranfatoucabello](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/alboranfatoucabello)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/13 "2023-03-06T11:17:08Z")

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Hi, the same happened to me twice this week. When I was finishing editing a block, closing the editor cause everything to disappear…

This is my system info:  
Rhino 7 SR27 2023-2-1 (Rhino 7, 7.27.23032.13001, Git hash:master @ 4a0030c0d354560df03764f4f49ecc5d119e5118)  
License type: Comercial, build 2023-02-01  
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.22621 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [100% battery remaining]

Hybrid graphics configuration.  
Primary display: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 6-1-2021 (M-D-Y).  
\> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)  
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port  
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA Quadro P2000 (NVidia) Memory: 4GB, Driver date: 11-26-2022 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 527.37  
\> Integrated accelerated graphics device (shares primary device ports)  
- Video pass-through to primary display device

OpenGL Settings  
Safe mode: Off  
Use accelerated hardware modes: On  
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On  
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x  
Mip Map Filtering: Linear  
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation  
Render version: 4.6  
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA  
Driver Date: 11-26-2022  
Driver Version: 31.0.15.2737  
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768  
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits  
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768  
Total Video Memory: 4 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.27.23032.13001  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RPC.rhp “RPC”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.27.23032.13001  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk\_etoui.rhp “RDK\_EtoUI” 7.27.23032.13001  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk\_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”   
C:\Users\ALBORAN\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0\PanelingTools\2021.3.2.446\PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.27.23032.13001  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.27.23032.13001  
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”   
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”

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**Author:** ![Neva\_Kocic1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/neva_kocic1/32/657530_2.png) [@Neva\_Kocic1](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Neva_Kocic1)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/14 "2025-08-14T17:01:24Z")

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Hi this is still an issue in rhino 8 SR21. Happened to me twice and I can’t find a way to get geometry back 😕

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**Author:** ![dale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/dale/32/685184_2.png) [@dale](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/dale)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/15 "2025-08-15T22:23:01Z")

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Hi @Neva_Kocic1,

Can you help us by providing the steps need for us to repeat the issue here?

Thanks,

– Dale

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**Author:** ![Neva\_Kocic1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/neva_kocic1/32/657530_2.png) [@Neva\_Kocic1](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Neva_Kocic1)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/16 "2025-08-18T16:55:42Z")

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Hi Dale,

I’m actually not sure how it disappeared.  
I just noticed that undo didn’t work and I couldn’t get geometry back.

Next time it happens, I will look into command line and let you know.

Thank you for your attention and time.

Best,  
Neva

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**Author:** ![Wade\_Vollink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/wade_vollink/32/681941_2.png) [@Wade\_Vollink](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Wade_Vollink)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/17 "2025-09-30T16:20:02Z")

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I’ve had 2 users come across the same problem in the last month. It tends to happen when they are rapidly clicking inside of the block editor. Thankfully I was on a virtual call and could observe it first hand. I managed to capture this screenshot of the command history. After the highlighted command everything was gone.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/1/4/8/148619036a5ddc1ec9038b22ca85012e29e37317.jpeg)

I’ve come up with a way to replicate the event partially.

1. Create a block and open it in the block editor.
2. Leave the block editor by clicking ok through the command window
3. As quickly as possible press space bar or right click to repeat the last command.
4. If done successfully all geometry in the model will be deleted from the world.

In repeating these steps a few different times I’ve noticed that if there is only a instance reference object in the world a popup comes up _The block was not modified, it must contain at least one object_ but if there is other geometry in the world the popup does not appear. Curiously, the block definition that was originally open has been changed to include all geometry that was not inside of the block initially. It seems as though my users are experiencing this second option and upon seeing the model completely disappear their first instinct is to ctrl+z as quickly as possible. Reverting the instance definition back to its state prior to making any edits.

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**Author:** ![Gijs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/gijs/32/769882_2.png) [@Gijs](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Gijs)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/18 "2025-09-30T16:28:54Z")

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@Wade_Vollink if we had a customer of the month award I would nominate you right now, this is brilliant. I could easily reproduce

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**Author:** ![Michael\_H](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/michael_h/32/487610_2.png) [@Michael\_H](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Michael_H)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/19 "2025-10-03T12:21:26Z")

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> [@Wade\_Vollink](#):
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> uriously, the block definition that was originally open has been changed to include all geometry that was not inside of the block initially. It seems as though my users are experiencing this second option and upon seeing the model completely disappear their first instinct is to ctrl+z as quickly as possible. Reverting the instance definition back to its state pr

I also just experienced this bug today with the steps you described where I accidentally ran the command BlockEditApplyInPlaceEditItemChanges and was unable to restore all the geometry outside of the block definition 😕

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**Author:** ![Wade\_Vollink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/wade_vollink/32/681941_2.png) [@Wade\_Vollink](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Wade_Vollink)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/20 "2025-10-03T17:40:48Z")

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Michael I’ve found that adding \_BlockEditApplyInPlaceEditItemChanges to the do not repeat list, as described above, mitigates this error. I’ve created a powershell script to set this in the settings xml on install and update for my users, but setting it for yourself is as simple as adding the command to the do not repeat list in Options \> General.

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**Author:** ![dale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/dale/32/685184_2.png) [@dale](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/dale)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/21 "2025-10-06T15:16:34Z")

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Hi @Wade_Vollink,

Thanks for reporting this.

> **[BlockEditApplyInPlaceEditItemChanges should not be repeatable : RH-89760](https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-89760)**
>
> BlockEdit has several hidden commands. None of these commands should be repeatable. https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/19

– Dale

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/brian/32/504171_2.png) [@brian](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/rhino-6-bug-deletes-all-geometry-cant-control-z-to-get-it-back/59720/22 "2025-10-14T22:59:58Z")

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[RH-89760](https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-89760) is fixed in [Rhino 8 Service Release 25](https://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino/8/latest)