Layer order influence on the object stack

Rhino
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Hello Everybody,
Can the change of layer order influence the stacking of objects like in illustrator ?
I was wondering if the layer name acts as it physical conterpart.
Is there any way layers can be used this way by any chance ?
The draworder command can sometimes be a bit capriucious to manipulate when having a lot of hatches overlapping one another.
Thank you very much for the help

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In principle, if you do not modify the draw order of individual objects, the draw order should follow the layer order (top of the layer list in front and on downward). I do not know how that actually works in practice, A quick test in V8 appears to work well in that regard.

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Thanks for the reply !
Yes I just checked in v8 and it does seem like it works this way.
However, when moving a layer in the layer stack after the creation of objects, it seems like this action has no effect on the objects stacking order.
I am wondering if there is any access to the draw order number anywhere in the object property in order to manipulate the object stacking accordingly.

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I tested that here (lightly!) and it seemed to work in V8, perhaps post an example file that doesn’t work how you expect…

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Here is a Python script which will put up a text dot indicating the draw order of selected objects and allow you to modify them in real-time. I don’t know how it plays with layer draw order though.

SetObjDisplayOrderOSD.py (4.4 KB)

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Thank you so much for the script Mitch !
I tried indeed to move the layers with hatch objects on them and it seems like it works indeed !!
I am gonna try to open older files with quite a few overlayed hatches to see how it performs.
Have a nice day !