Drawing Order

The Drawing Order command has options tailored to specific entity types. The options offer more control over the visibility of annotations, further streamlining the design process.

The options provide:
  • Improved clarity. Ensures that crucial design elements, such as dimensions and annotations, are visible in the visual hierarchy.
  • Efficient workflow. Allows granular control over layering to efficiently manage the visibility of different elements, reducing the time spent on manual adjustments.
  • Enhanced precision. Provides more precision in CAD designs by bringing specific elements to the front and sending others to the back.
Option Description
Bring Annotations to Front Brings all annotation entities, including text, dimensions, and leaders, to the forefront of the design.

By consolidating annotations in the foreground, you enhance the communication of critical information, improve the legibility of design annotations, facilitate better comprehension of measurements, and simplify the review and presentation process.

You can create more precise, visually appealing, and impactful drawings while promoting efficient collaboration and communication.
Send Hatches to Back Relegates hatches to the background, ensuring unobstructed visibility of underlying entities.

This is useful when hatch patterns interfere with the clarity and comprehensibility of the design, providing clearer drawing views.
Send References to Back Relegates references to the background, optimizing the visibility of primary design elements.

This lets you focus on the key components, resulting in improved efficiency and accuracy during the design process.

Consider a user has a detailed floor plan for a commercial building. The project involves several dimensions, annotations, and graphical elements, making layers and visibility crucial for clarity and precision.

By using the Bring to Front and Send to Back options, you have more control over layering. You can bring dimensions, leaders, text, and annotations to the front, while sending hatches, drawings, and images in DGN and PDF formats to the back.

To access the TEXTTOFRONT, HATCHTOBACK, or REFERENCETOBACK commands:

Do the following:
Ribbon Menu
View > Order > Bring Text to Front Tools > Display Order > Bring Annotations to Front > Text Only
View > Order > Bring Dimensions to Front Tools > Display Order > Bring Annotations to Front > Dimensions Only
View > Order > Bring Leaders to Front Tools > Display Order > Bring Annotations to Front > Leaders Only
View > Order > Bring All Annotations to Front Tools > Display Order > Bring Annotations to Front > All Annotation Entities
View > Order > Send Hatches to Back Tools > Display Order > Send Hatches to Back
View > Order > Send Drawings to Back Tools > Display Order > Send References to Back > Drawings Only
View > Order > Send Images to Back Tools > Display Order > Send References to Back > Images Only
View > Order > Send PDFs to Back Tools > Display Order > Send References to Back > PDFs Only
View > Order > Send DGNs to Back Tools > Display Order > Send References to Back > DGNs Only
View > Order > Send All References to Back Tools > Display Order > Send References to Back > All Referenced Entities

Or

Enter TEXTTOFRONT, HATCHTOBACK, or REFERENCETOBACK in the command window.