Order of Objects

When editing a document, the objects are shown in the order that they were created. Some objects can be overlapped or obscure each other. To correct the situation, the order of the objects (their display on the screen) can be changed, one object can be placed in front of another.

Commands to change the order of objects allow you to regulate the display of overlapping objects in one plane.

The Draworder command controls the order of drawing all objects. After running it, a prompt is displayed in the command line:

Enter object ordering option or [Above_objects/Under_objects/Front/Back]:

Commands to change the order of objects are shown in the Tools – Display Order and on the Display Order toolbar:

·         Bring to Front;

·         Send to Back;

·         Bring Forward;

·         Send Backward.

In addition to Display order command the Objectorder command can change draw order for such objects as text, dimensions and hatches.

After running the command, a prompt is displayed in the command line:

Select an option [TT/DT/TDT/HB]:

Commands to change the order of text, dimension and hatch objects are shown in the Tools – Display Order and on the Display Order toolbar:

·         Texts to front;

·         Dimensions to front;

·         Texts and dimensions to front;

The command to change the display order of hatches: in the menu Tools – Display order > Hatches to back.

The version of the Purge document command to work from the command line (-PURGE) allows you to clear the object sorting table. The sorting table contains lists of the order of the objects. Sometimes there are so many such records that the program starts working with the document much slower. Purging this list removes empty entries, greatly speeding up your work.