Been using Rhino for many years and never used this feature. I had my layers organized a certain way as I built my products. I accidentally hit a block at the top of the layers which reordered everything alphabetically. I clicked all of the categories at the top to try and get it back to no avail. Is it possible to get my custom layer organization back?
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I donāt think so. Iāve learned to stay AWAY from that block panel.
Or turn this Feature off so I wonāt do it again?
My two cents: it seems weird that many interface things cannot be reversed with un-do / CTRL-Z. Only commands. Any reason why?
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Only way is that you hopefully saved the file just before doing this, then close (without saving (win) / reverting changes (mac)) and re-open the file. If not, youāre S.O.L. Donāt know if Versions can help you there. Longtime problem in both versions, the user has absolutely NO access to layer display ordering, even via scripting.
Nopeā¦
āMitch
You can turn off all column sorting, uncheck Column Sort at bottom of Tools menu (hammer icon in Layers panel). Itās been requested before that column sort be turned off by default or be un-doable: http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-30615
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Yes, that should be at least unchecked by defaultā¦ Itās a ādangerousā feature.
Philip
Great tip! I never knew that.
Are you familiar with the LayerStateManager, which is also listed under the hammer icon? It wonāt save your backside unless you have previously used it to save your preferred layer arrangement. If your workflow involves more layers arranged with more complexity than youād like to manually recover, perhaps when you recognize things are getting complicated you could just use it to take a snapshot of where you are. Then the next time you hear yourself saying āOOPSā, you can recover back to someplace recognizable.
And what about timed auto backups of your file? Maybe it would be less work to re-create what youāve created since the most recent than to try to rearrange your layers on the current version after your āAw Sā¦tā.
I am aware of it, but I have never used it or even looked at it in a long time. I just checked it out ā¦ and it looks very intuitive and powerful. Thanks for the reminder.
Or maybe you could name your layers like architects doā¦ Iām not an anchitect myself, but I found itās worth it, I usualy work with 20 to 50, 100 layers, depending on the complexity of the model.
I use nested layers a lot, for storing object states, and that works very well for meā¦
Itās usually like this:
0.0_REF
ā0.1_Picture.Top
ā0.2_Picture.Front
1.0_PARTNAME
ā1.1_Guides
ā1.2_Rails
ā1.3_Profiles
ā1.4_Srf
------1.4_Cutters
ā1.5_Fillets
2.0_OTHERPARTS
ā2.1_Etc.Etcā¦
With hystory on and sometimes Grasshopper, Iām basically using Rhino in āParametric Modeāā¦
And eliminates the problems that hitting āsort by nameā by accident causes on your layers.
Maybe not optimal, but itās the way I learned. would be very happy if someone showed a better way to do it eitherā¦
Blockquote You can turn off all column sorting, uncheck Column Sort at bottom of Tools menu (hammer icon in Layers panel). Itās been requested before that column sort be turned off by default or be un-doable: http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-30615
awesome! this is very handy if you want to export to illustator, since layer order=displayorder in IL.
the coolest thing would be if one could save a sorted layer column state via an option in the layer states panel. @pascal would that be possible to script or integrate at some time?
best,
anika