Hello everyone, please: Rhino selected layer, how to point a small light bulb to hide it
I mean, when you select it, you can’t hide it or lock it. Is there any other quick way
Hi @Ward,
You cannot turn off the current layer. Make another current, and then you’ll be able to turn off the layer you want.
— Dale
Yes, I understand that. Can you set a command by right-clicking and also close the selected layer
My apologies, but I don’t understand what this means. Can you explain in more detail what you want to do and why?
Thanks,
– Dale
Why don’t the visibility and lock icons just stay there when the layer is active?
Hi @ftzuk,
This goes back to Rhino 3.0:
The decision then was, since you can not turn off or lock the current layer, there wasn’t a reason to show them and confuse the user. Not showing these two images also makes spotting the current layer a little easier, in my opinion.
– Dale
You don’t want to double click on another layer to close it. If all the other layers are closed, then you can double click and open them!
i think it would be far less confusing if one would be able to hide the current layer which is standard for all other apps i know (affinity, adobe, autocad, etc.) no nervously and redundantly clicking onto a different layer to hide the current which is something that one just happens to do.
what is the issue in making this possible or insisting on having it not work as usual? is it difficult to implement in Rhino?
in photoshop for instance if you hide all layers it simply creates a new one if you start working, in indesign it just indicates that you are not on a layer with a pencil that has a block sign. though as far as i know there a different design teams that work on each app in adobe with is responsible for it to be so different in its ui across the apps. in the affinity apps it consistently creates a new layer if you hide all others.
you could just decide what it should do here, i personally like that it silently just creates a new layer.
I would rather change the appearance of the layer (maybe the background color?) than strip away functionality. I’ve often been working on a layer and wanted to hide that layer to see other components and been a bit annoyed that the option wasn’t there.
Also if I’m working on blue layer 3 and want to select everything else, having the lock layer there would make this easier as well: Lock layer 3 and select everything else.
+1 To just keeping those icons there.
That’s true. You’re absolutely right
an alternative to turning on/locking the current layer would be implement a layer isolate / layer unisolate command like in autocad. maybe add an option to invert selection for OneLayerOn/Off.
something like:
“OneLayerOff-Inverse” would hide all layers other than the layer of the selected object – effectively isolating the layer of a selected object. perhaps the current layer is set to the isolated layer as all other layers are not visible.
“OneLayerOn-Inverse” would show all layers other than the layer of the select object. this would effectively unisolate the layer of the selected object and the previously isolated layer would remain on and current (so it’s not a complete inverse operation where the selected layer would be turned off since that’s not possible in rhino).