- [Instructor] Another important aspect
of the SOLIDWORKS CAM operation tree
is that we can automatically sort or manually reorganize
the different operations in order
to create a more efficient process of machining.
I can drag and drop any operation above or below
any other operation.
For example, I might want this center drill
to happen at the end of my machining process
instead of at the beginning of my machining process.
I'll move this drill step down here as well.
So I'll go through the other drill bits
before I come back to this hole.
Or, instead of manually reorganizing these,
I can automatically sort.
So I'm going to do that.
I'm going to right click on the mill parts setup.
And I'm going to go down
to the sort operations item in the menu,
and there are a number of different ways
of processing or sorting.
We're going to process complete features,
and we'll go ahead and we can sort by operation type.
We can sort by tool.
So let's sort by tool that's going to be used.
And click apply.
Click okay.
And you'll notice that now my list has sorted
each operation based on the tool.
This is really great if you have an automatic tool changer
and you want to make sure that each tool is used
for all of the processes that are associated with that tool
before the tool is switched to a new tool.