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Sorting the BOM

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Sorting the BOM

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're continuing along with the same bill of materials we added in the last movie, on the same assembly here and I want to start sorting that bill of materials. Let's go ahead and zoom in and, as you can see here, we have a bill of materials and, if I click on it, I can actually switch over from a indented style of BOM over here to the parts only style. Go ahead and click OK. And now you can see this is clearly not sorted, so let's go ahead and just, to get into a sorting, it's pretty straight-forward and simple. Just right-click and come down here to Sort, all right? So now I have the ability to sort either by part number, item number, or any of the different columns you happen to have in that bill of materials. Of course, you can be ascending or descending. Then, you can actually do a secondary sort, if you'd like to do that, as well. As well as a third sorting. So, we have a bunch of different options of how we'd like to do that. Let's go ahead and try…

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