Reordering Features in the Specification Tree  

This task shows you how to reorder Functional Tolerancing & Annotation features in the Specification Tree.
This function is only available for:
  • View/Annotation planes,
  • Datums,
  • Datum Targets,
  • Tolerancing Captures.
     
Semantic Datum, Non-Semantic Datum and Non-Semantic Target feature displayed under Datums node are treated as similar objects and can be reordered between each other if they belong to same Annotation Set.

Open an existing CATPart document containing Functional Tolerancing & Annotation features.

  1. Right-click a datum in the specification tree and select Simple Datum.X object > Reorder from the contextual menu.
    The Arrow Insert After pointer appears on features where you can reorder your selection.

    • Press Ctrl to display the Arrow Insert Before cursor.
    • When it is not possible to reorder your selection, the no selection cursor is displayed.
    • Multi-selection of same features is possible, for this select Selected objects > Reorder from the contextual menu

  2. Select the datum after which you want reorder the selected datum.
    The datum is reordered in the specification tree.