What determines the layer sort order in Rhino

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Hi @davidcockey,

It should be up there now. Note, this is a Windows-only deal.

– Dale

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LayerSort was downloaded and installed. Thank you for making it available.

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Thank you Dale, added it to the Command List on startup and its working great!

Super appreciate your help with this!!!

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@dale Im curious about the method setting. What is the difference between the two?
How can I change the Method setting other than with a mouse click?

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Dale provided links about the different sort methods previously: What determines the layer sort order in Rhino - #31 by djnelson75

The difference seems to be how digits in the name are treated. Simple considers digits to be text characters, while logical considers multiple digits as a number and uses the numerical value when sorting. See below for examples of the two sorting methods:

One of the links includes:

Remarks

This function’s ordering schema differs somewhat from StrCmpI, which also compares strings without regard to case sensitivity. Considering digits by their numerical value—as StrCmpLogicalW does—strings are ordered as follows:

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2string
3string
20string
st2ring
st3ring
st20ring
string2
string3
string20

StrCmpI considers digits in the string only as text so that those same strings are ordered as follows:

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20string
2string
3string
st20ring
st2ring
st3ring
string2
string20
string3
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Example of the sort methods:
Unsorted, Simple, Logical

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Ah, thank you David, I missed the point of that earlier post by Dale. So “logical” is basically to match the default sort for version 8 and “simple” is for version 7.

What string do I use to include “method=simple” into the macro? I keep getting “unknown command”
How can I change the “method” using a macro?

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That appears to be correct.

Those are questions for @Dale or someone else from McNeel.

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