Reordering and Sorting Features in the Specification Tree  

This task shows you how to reorder and sort Functional Tolerancing & Annotation features in the Specification Tree.
This function is only available for:
  • View/Annotation planes
  • Datums
  • Datum targets
  • Tolerancing captures
  • Dimensions
  • Framed (Basic) Dimensions
  • Coordinate dimensions
  • Texts
  • Flag notes
  • Note object attributes
  • Geometrical tolerances
  • Weld features
  • Surface texture features
  • Datum reference frames
  • Construction geometries
  • Threads
  • Restricted areas
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.

  3. Right-click a parent node in the specification tree, for example Datum features and datum targets and select xxx object > Sort.
    All the similar objects under the selected node are sorted alphabetically and grouped together.

    • You can also multiselect the objects in the specification tree, right-click, and select Selected objects > Sort.
    • The selected objects must be under the same parent object.
    • If you multiselect objects available under different parent nodes, they are sorted between each other under each parent node.
    • If you multiselect different types of objects, then the similar types of objects are identified, sorted, and grouped together forming multiple groups.