The current control of the object display order linked to the layer order is laborious and a hassle. Furthermore the object display order of the layout and print preview window (and actual print) are not matching. In Rhino 6 and earlier Versions of Rhino 7, hatches always printed in the very back, …

Sorry, you are right. I just tried to make a point in relating the many existing Rhino users (many thousands) to rather few users that post a wish to change something (that all the other users are probably OK with)…

@Holo what do you think - refering to your old topic ? [image] PDF draw order bug still Rhino for Windows Hi guys, this is getting tiresome… There are still draw order bugs in PDF printing and it is really frustrating to never be able to trust neither the vi…

[image] Tom_P: I hate Bring/Send Back/ForWard as there is no way to monitor / display the resulting hierarchy. I made this tool awhile back just in case it helps anyone… SetObjDisplayOrderOSD.py (4.4 KB) Creates an on-screen display with selected objects’ display order number in the form …

My hope is to create a display mode in Rhino 9 that accurately displays the output order that you would see when printing to vector. This display mode will be slower than standard wireframe mode as there are a lot of optimizations made to batch geometry in a way that reduces the communication betwee…

Steve I would prefer to retain the current layout “object order” and change/repair the print preview/output. We are happy with the layout preview/behaviour. For us it is mainly the print output…

Is there any progress on this topic? Thanks. We are currently delaying upgrading due to this.

This feature is not available yet in Rhino 8. I am currently working on some printing code that will eventually allow us to implement the feature, but the feature itself does not exist yet in Rhino. The link I provided above in this thread points to the issue in our bugtracker and is still not in a …

@matthias the latest 8.5 release candidate that was published an hour ago contains a hidden command called TestPrintSortOrder This will not autocomplete so you will have to type out the entire command to run it. If you run this command and change UseLayersWhenSorting to no, the I believe you shou…

Steve. Thanks. That is a solution, thanks. For us it would be great to see this in one of the next regular versions! [image] What is still confusing is, that the layout view shows a different order of objects to the print preview. For example, there is a line pattern on the orange layer. It shows…

Oh man… the display order issue is endless. Now using Rhino 8, the software is somehow confused… First of all, printing seams right. But the viewport display itself is weird. Text displays below lines line/pattern-hatches are sometimes below/sometimes on top of solid hatches (although they sit …

Display order linked to layer order

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brian (Brian Gillespie) March 11, 2026, 12:24am 32

RH-78958 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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Display order linked to layer order

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