Hi John,
I have the same problem. If you right click, there is a selection to "HIDE" objects, select "hide all curves". If you want to keep everything together, I usually "GROUP" the object, but sometimes that brings up other problems. Others with more experience, hopefully will offer more solutions.
Larry

Hi John,
My advice is to create one layer for each solid part, with sublayers for :
- Geometry construction (lines & splines)
- Surface construction (used to trim, split, etc)
- volume construction (sub-elements kept separately to keep clear history).

I've been doing this for many years and when I open an old file (even before Shark), I immediately find everything clean and ready to be modified...
JL

John, Shark and ViaCAD aren't restricted to one workplane, and they're frequently not as dependent on workplanes as CoCreate is/was. They don't "move objects around with the workplane", so all I can imagine that's happening is that you're using one plane only. But, when you need to, you can define a workplane anywhere you like. Go to the workplane menu, click "new workplane", give it a name, establish the axis coordinates either by direct data entry or by following the intellicursor to features and clicking on them, and there y'go. You don't have to go to those lengths, though: right click, go to workplane in the context menu (unless you're drawing a curve. A Shark/VC idiosyncracy is that curve tools disable the right-click context menu. In that case, use the menu) and you've got a choice of methods of defining them locally, along with a list of any named planes you've defined earlier. Also, hover your cursor over an object and press "C" (I'm assuming Windows, which is PC paternalism, I know, but I don't Mac so I don't know if that's true), the WP indicator will display and cycle through the planes the program finds locally relevant, which can save you having to define another.
Deleting elements, as you describe, breaks the links between generators and bodies. You're destroying the associative ability to edit profiles and paths. VC and Shark encourage you to use the advantages of associativity, not surrender them because you didn't pay enough!
Layers are useful for sequestration, but you've also got the show-and-hide visibility attributes to take advantage of, for working around other objects and generators.