Reordering Features

Reordering Part Design or Generative Shape Design features means moving and repositioning these features in the tree. There are three ways of moving these features. You can reposition them.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Reordering Features
Reordering Sketch-Based Features

Reorder One Feature using the After Option

You can reorder a feature using the After option. The feature will be positioned after the selected feature.

Your initial data consists of a pad that was mirrored and a second pad created afterwards. As the order of creation is wrong, you are going to reorder the second pad so as to mirror the whole PartBody. Right-click Pad.2 and select Pad.2 object > Reorder

  1. The Feature Reorder dialog box appears. The default reorder option is After. For the purpose of this scenario, keep this option.
  2. Select Pad.1 to specify the new location of the feature. This name appears in the After box.
  3. Click OK. The part rebuilds itself completely or partially, depending on the chosen option for update operations.
  4. When the update is complete, to see the resulting geometry, use Define in Work Object to set Mirror.1 as the current feature.

    The mirror feature appears after the creation of the second pad, which explains why this second pad is now mirrored.



Reorder Several Features at a Time

You can reorder two or more features at a time by multi-selecting the features and reordering them.

  1. Multi-select Pad.2. and EdgeFillet.1, right-click, and select Selected objects > Reorder.... Our selection includes two features consecutively positioned under the same tree node.

    Non-Consecutive Features

    If the features are not strictly consecutively positioned under the same tree node, you can reorder them provided they are independent: with no parents (except for XY, YZ or ZX planes or axis systems located just below the part in the tree) and with nor children.

    Otherwise, the operation is not possible and an error message is issued.

    In our scenario, the app detects non-available locations and display them in yellow.



  2. The Feature Reorder dialog box appears. Select Pad.1 to indicate the new location for Pad.2 and EdgeFillet.1. The dialog box shows that two elements are to be reordered after Pad.1.
  3. Click OK to confirm. The 3D shape rebuilds itself. Both Pad.2 and EdgeFillet.1 are now mirrored. To see the resulting geometry as shown below, set PartBody as the current object using Define in Work Object.