- [Instructor] Once I've generated my operation plan,
I can look at the list of operations
that were automatically generated that will allow
the part to be machined from the stock.
And there might be some changes that I'd like to incorporate
in order to get a better finish for the part,
or use different tools than were automatically selected.
So one thing I can go ahead and do
is right click on the middle part definition here,
and select other operations.
So in this case, I'm going to select the center drill
and right click.
And let's add a new hole machining operation.
Let's just do a straight up drill
instead of the center drill.
Brings up my dialogue box.
I'm going to select something that's smaller in diameter.
So we'll go with a five millimeter
by 90 millimeter length counter sync.
And we'll go ahead and add that to our operation list.
Click okay.
Now, in addition to the center drill,
we also have a hole drill operation
that's going to drill a smaller diameter hole
in the same location.
So we have both of these operations that have been added
to our operation list.
In addition to being able to add new operations to our list,
we can also delete the operations that we just created.
So I'm going to go ahead and right click on this.
And you notice that that puts the deleted operation
in the recycling bin.
If we need to restore that for some reason,
we can go ahead and restore it.
And just like with other aspects of SOLIDWORKS,
I can suppress these items.
And when I generate tool paths, these items will be ignored.
So there's two different ways to skip over operations
that have been identified with our generate operation plan.