diff --git a/libsrc/meshing/meshclass.cpp b/libsrc/meshing/meshclass.cpp
index 95ffd25f..35495ae7 100644
--- a/libsrc/meshing/meshclass.cpp
+++ b/libsrc/meshing/meshclass.cpp
@@ -4999,6 +4999,7 @@ namespace netgen
      NgProfiler::RegionTimer reg (timer);
 
 
+     /*
      sei.SetSize (0);
      for (SurfaceElementIndex i = 0; i < GetNSE(); i++)
      {
@@ -5008,7 +5009,7 @@ namespace netgen
            sei.Append (i);
         }
      }
-
+     */
 
      /* Philippose - 01/10/2009
      Commented out the following lines, and activated the originally 
@@ -5017,7 +5018,6 @@ namespace netgen
      */
 
      //      int size1 = sei.Size();
-     /*
      sei.SetSize(0);
 
      SurfaceElementIndex si = facedecoding[facenr-1].firstelement;
@@ -5031,7 +5031,6 @@ namespace netgen
 
         si = (*this)[si].next;
      }
-     */
      
      /*
      // *testout << "with list = " << endl << sei << endl;