I’m working on some laser cutting layouts and using Human to bake geometry to layers. In some instances the “blue” (which is engraving) ends up on top of the “red” (which is cutting). I couldn’t figure out how to adjust DisplayOrder with GH so I end up doing it manually at the end of the process, …

[image] RD3: adjust DisplayOrder Assuming that you have some ordered (in the example shown: by Area descending meaning that the “inner”/smaller ones should appear “on top”) GeometryBase stuff on hand (done with GH or sampled in a List/Tree/etc into some parameter) bake and set DisplayOrder a…

I do not know how to do. However, I’m surprised that the cut order is usually configured in the lazer cutter interface and the display order is purely visual and useful only to us humans. Personally, I do not define the colors on the curves/lines. I create blue, red, purple, black layers, … (inter…

You know what, you’re completely right. The laser cutter completely ignored the order of lines. Thanks @kitjmv . The reason I’m using PDF’s is that I couldn’t find a way to automate the export of layout views, however @dharman made a great python script/gh component that does this by printing PDFs. …

Have you seen this? [image] Layout DrawOrder is causing so many problems. Can you please focus some resources on this? Rhino for Windows To fix the threes I had to blockedit it and sel crvs and bringtofront. (But it already apparently had a draworder that worked, but why …

May I allow myself one last piece of advice. You should never have cutouts on an engraving. Except in very special cases. Or if the engraving has a large offset (to obtain a width of 0.5 mm for example.) The reason is that you will be cutting a pre-cut material (by engraving) at the same power as …

Yeah, your totally right. My GH definition removes most of the overlaps, but sometimes there is the odd location where there it fails and leaves an overlap. The definition puts the roads, the sheet above and the contour cut all on the same sheet so it gets a little complicated. I’m cutting MDF an…

[image] RD3: I’m cutting MDF You are in the case of a fatty material (glue)… Sorry, I felt compelled to say that ) jmv

I’m glad you pointed this out, gives the needed motivation to improve my definition and eliminate these overlapping curves…maybe this DisplayOrder thing is a Rhino 8/GH 2 problem :slight_smile:

Wow, thanks @PeterFotiadis If that’s not a reason to write scripts using the API then I don’t know what is. Super cool.

Would it be possible to share the script?

I’ll be back to the practice after some time PLUS I can barely remember the directory path/category/etc where this C# is stored (if is stored).

Is it possible to adjust the displayorder via GH?

Grasshopper

kitjmv (jmv) June 1, 2021, 5:41pm 4

Have you seen this?

It’s a sensitive subject …

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Is it possible to adjust the displayorder via GH?

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