Changing drawing order of viewports

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by jodawi, May 27, 2005.

  1. jodawi

    jodawi Guest

    It seems AutoCAD doesn't allow you to change the drawing order of
    viewports. Does anyone know a way to do this? Send to back etc doesn't
    work.

    Test: create a circle with a solid red bhatch, and another with yellow.
    Create two viewports, one showing each circle. Move one viewport so it
    is on top of the other. Now either the red circle or the yellow circle
    should appear to be on top. Try to change the order so the other one
    appears to be on top.
     
    jodawi, May 27, 2005
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  2. You're driving Acad like its Adobe Illustrator. It's not, though I'm
    curious, how does it render this situation? Have you tried DRAWORDER to put
    the one you want on top.... on top?
     
    Michael Bulatovich, May 27, 2005
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  3. jodawi

    jodawi Guest

    After testing, it appears to draw them in the reverse order that they
    appear in the list. Bizarre.

    And objects can't be stacked above and below them, as the viewports are
    always drawn in a separate plane from the rest of the paper space
    objects. Bizarre reprise.

    So when are they going to finish implementing the concept of "paper
    space"?

    (note: just tested with 2005; haven't set up 2006 yet.)
     
    jodawi, May 27, 2005
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  4. Does that relate to the "birth order" of the viewports in any way?

    Like I said, this isn't a graphics program, sadly.
     
    Michael Bulatovich, May 27, 2005
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  5. jodawi

    jodawi Guest

    Well, I'm driving it like it's VectorWorks, where the viewports are
    like any other object and draw in whatever order I tell them to,
    annotations can be both above and below, and half the viewports don't
    appear blank if I try anything other than 2D wireframe (another AutoCAD
    problem).

    DRAWORDER doesn't do anything for viewports.
     
    jodawi, May 27, 2005
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  6. I cut my CAD teeth on MiniCAD. AutoCAD doesn't do two-dimensional objects
    very well. It's a big adjustment.

    As for the DRAWORDER comment, it was for the object in modelspace, not the
    port.
     
    Michael Bulatovich, May 27, 2005
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  7. jodawi

    jodawi Guest

    DRAWORDER works ok for non-viewports, but I was hoping to be able to
    find a way to export an arbitrary VectorWorks document with possible
    annotations above and below viewports in paper space (in addition to
    annotations in model space that should show in the viewport), and also
    supporting stacked viewports the same. It doesn't look like there's any
    way to do that, so the VectorWorks side will have to be careful to use
    only what AutoCAD supports.
     
    jodawi, May 31, 2005
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