Reorder Specification Tree Tutorial

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to rearrange the order of the components in the specification tree using a VBA macro. This method will use cut and paste but the constraint links will be preserved. In this tutorial, you’ll also learn how to:

 -create a userform with listboxes, labels, and command buttons

- make a listbox not selectable

 -keep constraints when reordering by cutting and pasting

- automatically sort the tree from A to Z or Z to A

The general steps this tutorial will follow are:

1. Create a new CATProduct or open an existing assembly file in CATIA V5

2. Setup a new CATVBA program

3. Create a Userform

4. Write the code for each of the command buttons

5. Write the reorder tree code

6. Test!