How to Control Layer Order / Visibility?
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:47 pm
There doesn't appear to be a way to assign what order layers render in. It seems whatever object was edited last comes to the top and is most visible. Is this right or am I missing something? It doesn't seem very functional to have to edit objects to bring them to the top and as far as I've seen I can't have a layer draw above another layer.
In my home plan I'm getting the foundation drawing over top of windows and obscuring them. Any way to control this? Is there a "touch" command that makes selected objects "last edited" so they come to top?
BTW I don't know if AutoCAD works this way or not as it's been more than a decade since I've used it, but every other vector drawing program I've used allows ordering the layers so that you can determine what will over draw on what.
eg. I just edited the position of the brick wall under a glass brick partition. Now it seems I have to go back and fake edit the glass bricks as otherwise in the drawing they are obscured by the bricks under them. I have a hard time believing that AutoCAD would force me to fake edit items to make them stay visible.
In my home plan I'm getting the foundation drawing over top of windows and obscuring them. Any way to control this? Is there a "touch" command that makes selected objects "last edited" so they come to top?
BTW I don't know if AutoCAD works this way or not as it's been more than a decade since I've used it, but every other vector drawing program I've used allows ordering the layers so that you can determine what will over draw on what.
eg. I just edited the position of the brick wall under a glass brick partition. Now it seems I have to go back and fake edit the glass bricks as otherwise in the drawing they are obscured by the bricks under them. I have a hard time believing that AutoCAD would force me to fake edit items to make them stay visible.