Problem with Draw Order on Library Items

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TheEnglishPatient
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Problem with Draw Order on Library Items

Post by TheEnglishPatient » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:11 pm

I seem to have an issue with the Draw Order on items inserted from a library:
Lib.JPG
Drawing 'bloc' as saved in library
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There are four layers: Annotation, Schematic, Signals, and Track (Blue). Note that 'underneath' = lower drawing order of the blue there are equivalent lines in black of layer 'Schematic'.
When I insert the library item into a new drawing it looks like this:
Drawing.JPG
As in drawing when inserted
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Black lines are now 'on top' - in fact the whole draw order seems to have been messed with (at least when you examine the elements by exploding the bloc). I've tried any combination of send back/front to no avail. Any suggestions? (BTW I am on QCAD 3.0.9)

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Re: Problem with Draw Order on Library Items

Post by andrew » Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:14 pm

Thanks for the report.

Could you attach or mail the DXF or DWG file of the library item?

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Re: Problem with Draw Order on Library Items

Post by TheEnglishPatient » Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:36 pm

Attached the library file. Just another observation that may help: I have about 20 similar beasts and if I put them successively together into a new drawing the effect seems to get worse the further I go along: While on the first few ones I could explode the block, reorder with bring to front/back, and re-save as library item (which after deleting the old block I could then reinsert newly and correctly from the updated library) this seems to be no longer working if I have many of them. (hope you understand what I mean)
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EW-54-500-1_14-r (ref 0).dxf
This is the library file
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Re: Problem with Draw Order on Library Items

Post by andrew » Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:50 pm

Thanks. I cannot reproduce this problem with the latest QCAD version (3.7.5).

Can you try the latest QCAD (trial) version, to verify?
http://www.qcad.org/en/qcad-downloads-trial

Thanks.

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Re: Problem with Draw Order on Library Items

Post by TheEnglishPatient » Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:27 pm

Andrew, Just checked on 3.7.5.0 and problem seem no longer to exist. I wonder if this was not also maybe something with working on two monitors with different resolutions and hit-testing etc. In any case, so far so good. Thanks.

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