Display order tool

[georgiamay]

It would be great to have a visual tool to know what hierarchy elements are displayed on! It feels so silly having to send something to the back, backward, forward, and to the top. A lot of elements share the same level and I am sick of seeing "Cannot bring some element(s) any closer. Top stack level reached". It would be great to have a little graphic tool (that looks like a thermometer or something) where you can see how high/low elements are being displayed and you can drag element types up and down. It would be good if the tool highlighted what elements were invisible on drawings because they were accidentally sent backwards. I think this would be helpful in offices so you can see what order someone else would like things displayed. 

[Nader]

You can't imagine how many time I wished that, or how many others had also wished that

[thesleepofreason]

Add to this tool higher level criteria based control.

[Jdawgz]

OMG YES!

[F Barradas]

It's a shame that we don't have a tool for this yet. It could be a Layer's property (just like Intersection Groups are) or create an easy-to-use pallete (such as Design Options), where you can add entities to a "stack level" and then edit the stacking order. Adobe Illustrator and Vectoworks (also from Nemetschek group...) have smart ways to handle this for ages.

[keene kopper]

I've been thinking about this for years and finally, today was the day that I just said to my self, something must be done about this. Seeing the "Cannot bring some elements any close..." warning is very annoying. Never mind the fact that I have no idea where any elements *are* in stack order. Also, why is there any limit to stack order? That seems antiquated. I would—like everyone else here probably—would really like a GI element that shows where elements are in stack order, maybe per view, or maybe when one element is selected that is near others, the others show their stack order? Or maybe listed by type? 

Just looking for a solution, at the minimum, eliminating stack limits would be *extremely* liberating. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Kalib Stewart]

This one is absolutely essential. We have dozens of hotlinks coming in where we're have to republish entire modules just to send something slightly backward multiple times until it works in the main file. It is an absolute productivity killer. A palette would solve this.

[MarynaPopova]

You can see the order number in Element Information Palette (Window / Palettes / Element Info). But agree, a tool would be awesome. I wish there was also an override that would graphically highlight each order level in plan.

[Mechiel]

I placed a similar wish:

It would be great if it where possible to set an item (object, hatch, zone line etc) to a fixed position.

Now there are 5 (maybey 7) positions:

-on top

-almost on top

-in the middle

-almost to back

-to back

My wish:

-always to front

-on top

-almost on top

-in the middle + always somewhere in the middle?

-almost to back

-to back

-always to back

Part of the wish is also refering to module's. It would be great if a module (and all it contains) as a whole could be send to back/front.

[Mechiel]

always to back / always to front would be great because if elements are are added later they might end on top/back of an item that should always appear “to back/front”