[Help] Maya floating edge and verticies cannot delete

bgibson

I'm completely new to Maya, as in I've been using it for a week and this is my third model ever, and I've come across an issue where my model has a floating edge and vertices that I cannot delete. I have no idea why either

https://gyazo.com/431433e87743bc70d9dda4d35b0b6c4b
https://gyazo.com/b2f10bb295cf7d402eec7430ef384cba

The model is of a column I'm making for a modular kit for my 3D class

huffer

You can't delete vertices or edges in Maya like in other software, you need to be in face mode - only faces can be deleted as you would expect. Not sure how it's now in later versions but that's how it was up to 2015 I think. So you can select the mesh element you want to keep, in face mode, invert selection, delete. If it doesn't work, run Mesh - Cleanup and try again.