The Display Order by Layer command provides a handy method to quickly restore proper visibility to entities in a drawing when they become obscured by other entities (such as hatch patterns or raster image backgrounds). This command provides a combination of the popular Send to Back (draworderb) and Bring to Front (draworderf) routines (also found under the View>Display Order menu). The display order is applied to the current entities in the drawing at the time the command is run. It does not operate on newly created entities. So you need to run this command each time you want to apply the display order. The following dialog box appears:
Available Layers: The list of layers that are available in the current/active drawing.
Bring to Front: The layers to which the Bring to Front routine will be applied.
Send to Back: The layers to which the Send to Back routine will be applied.
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Moves the selected layer(s) in the Available Layers group to either the Bring to Front group or the Send to Back group. |
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Moves the selected layer(s) from either the Bring to Front group or Send to Back group to the Available Layers group. |
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Promotes the selected layer(s) within the Bring to Front group or Send to Back group. |
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Demotes the selected layer(s) within the Bring to Front group or Send to Back group. |
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Allows the layer of a graphically selected entity to be assigned to either Bring to Front group or Send to Back group. |
OK: Sets the display order to the layers in the drawing according to their rank and classification.
Cancel: Does not retain any layer rank or classification changes and does not commit any changes to entities in the drawing.
Load: Allows a previously saved Layer Order (.LO) file to be loaded into memory.
Save As: Saves the current layer rank and classification to a Layer Order (.LO) file.
Pulldown Menu Location(s):
View > Display Order
Keyboard Command: layer_order
Prerequisite: None