Draw Order Issues

[mgohring]

I am attempting to learn autocad here and finding issues with my draw order.

 

I drew a checkerboard scale bar with 1' rectangles and circles with inscribed text that have the distance. I want to create a block out of this that I can reuse. I noticed as I was doing this I had some draw order issues pop up.

 

My checkerboards want to be on the bottom and the text and containers for my text will want to be on the top. I went through my 100' scale bar and set all the draw orders to appear correct. I then moved the whole thing a couple of times or changed my views a few times and the whole thing reverted to goofy draw orders again without me modifying them.

 

Is there a way to keep all the items elevations at 0 and not have this issue? I keep running into it and I am not sure if it is a bug or not, but it is frustrating that it doesn't seem to retain the information I am applying to it.

 

I am noticing that it is primarily a appearance that happens when NOT in 2D.

 

Matt

[qball]

In the Properties bar did the Elevation actually change from 0?

Does a Regen help?

Can you post the file?

[mgohring]

 

 

AutoCAD Template 20110907.dwg

 

 

Here are a pair of screenshots. I didn't play with it enough to try to get it to misbehave in 2D wireframe again, but as you can see when I go from a 2D Wireframe to a conceptual view all sorts of weird things start to happen.

 

Matt

[qball]

odd. I don't know what to do. It might be annoying, but if you're not printing Conceptual View then it shouldn't be a problem.

[Arizona]

That is wierd but there are fixes.

You gould give the circles and text a positive z value, like 0.01 and leave the bar at 0.00.

 

Also, is regenauto on? It almost sounds like a regen issue.

 

or:

Copy the circles and text to a new location. Delete the old circles and numbers (P for previous). Then move the new circles and text back into place. I use that one often.

 

The Draworder command works, but sometimes does wierd things. Take wipeouts for instance. They'll make ya crazy. AutoCAD's database (your drawing) is 'first in, first out'. So the last entity created will be the last item drawn, on top of everything else. Draworder doesn't delete the old and make new, it just puts a 'plot last' tag on the item.