Just learning to use the spline tool

[gotchy]

How are the points and handles deleted after a sketch is completed using the Spline Tool, in solidworks 2007? If I try to delete them, they distort the sketch, even though the sketch is dimensioned and thereby constrained.
gotchy

[shift1313]

why are you trying to delete handles? are we talking about 2d splines or 3d splines?

Typically when creating splines you use as few control points as possible. Draw a spline with two points only(start/end) and adjust the handles(this is 2d we are talking about). if you cant achieve the curve you want, add a point and so on. This removes excess control points which only complicates things. If you select the spline while in edit sketch mode there is a button to reset handles(current or all).

how are you dimensioning the spline?