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Altering object display order
From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
Altering object display order
It's possible to control the order in which AutoCAD draws objects. In this way you can determine whether an object is obscured by another, or is displayed on top of it. Open the stacking order sample file from the chapter 11 folder. Here we have a couple of hatch patterns. The blue one appears to be on top of the red one. But these two objects are drawn on the flat x, y plane. There's no movement in the z axis here, so it's not a three-dimensional phenomenon. What I would like to do though is to get AutoCAD to display the red hatch pattern on top of the blue one. I can do that with a Draw Order command. The alias is dr. Now it says Select Objects. I'll select this red hatch pattern and press Enter. Now I have a choice about how I want to order what gets drawn above or below another. So, this is really a sequential order in time, but you can think of it as a spatial order, above and below. So here I'm going to say I want the red object to appear above the blue object. Enter, and there…
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Hiding and isolating objects2m 45s
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Editing object properties6m 38s
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Changing linetype scale2m 7s
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Creating layers6m 4s
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Using the Layer dropdown menu5m 55s
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Accessing specialized layer tools6m 32s
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Saving and restoring layer states2m 14s
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Altering object display order3m 10s
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