topic Re: Lines between layers in Project data & BIM

Lines between layers

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:40:28 GMT

I'm sure I have seen in a video somewhere where the tutor had placed lines between layers in the layer palette to separate groups of layers.
Can somebody remind me how to do this, or did I imagine it?

Re: Lines between layers

Barry Kelly — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:26:00 GMT

The layers (and layer combinations) are listed alphabetically/numerically.
So you just need to create layers (or layer combinations) called "A_________", "B__________" or similar.

If you use prefixes with you layer names then you could create layers called "PREFIX_________"

Barry.

Re: Lines between layers

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:39:16 GMT

screenshot

Re: Lines between layers

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:23:20 GMT

Thanks.

Re: Lines between layers

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:57:35 GMT

Another way to group layers (without lines, sorry) is to assign different group number to them (third column) but remember that objects in different groups don't apply material intersection.

Re: Lines between layers

JaredBanks — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:37:07 GMT

Eduardo. cool solution. never thought of that!

Re: Lines between layers

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:55:36 GMT

That is based on Rod Jurich's idea which I had to update to 18.

Re: Lines between layers

__archiben — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 01:33:44 GMT

i used to lock-out the 'header' layer as well: it helped visually break up the list and meant that a stray mouse click couldn't direct elements to that accidentally....

Re: Lines between layers

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 02:32:11 GMT

Ben, how did you grey out the text?

Re: Lines between layers

Barry Kelly — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 02:41:51 GMT

Rogerdodge wrote:
Ben, how did you grey out the text?

Just by Locking the layer - but you won't see it greyed out in the layer settings dialogue.
Only in the Info Box or tool settings.

Also not much use if you use the option to hide locked layers as you won't see them at all.

It is a good idea to lock them in all you layer combinations as generally these are layers you will never want to place elements into.

Barry.