Order of curves in pdf or svg

[cdordoni]

Here’s a related thread from a few days ago:

Export objects in a particular order to SVG/DXF/PDF

Hello, I want to be able to export objects (formats of interest are SVG/DXF/PDF) but maintain their order in the exported file. I.e. if I draw objects in the sequence 1,2,3,4 then I want them exported to the file in the same sequence 1,2,3,4. Reason - one application is to export to SVG and then output to an AxiDraw pen plotter from within Inkscape. I’ve experimented with this in v7, but there does not appear to be any logic to the sequence in which Rhino processes objects for export. I would …