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Hi!

I would like to make a loop in witch I would like to connect a section to different parts of the realistic 3D dendritic tree (reconstructed using Neurolucida system). I would like to find out how I should disconnect the section? Is it enough to use disconnect() at the end of the loop to disconnect the section from its parent section or I should use delete_section() also to release it before I reuse it in another loop.

secname disconnect()
should do the job. If you want to be absolutely sure, try it on a toy model that has just two or
three sections. Use topology() after each pass through the loop to get a printout of the
branched architecture of the model, and make sure that what you get is what you intended.