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Bonsai - Drawing annotation order - ZIndex

  1. J

    Hi,

    On the forum I saw that people want to control drawing export order (myself included). I didn't know how it would work and it seems not so many people make drawings (yet), so I think knowladge is a bit limited.

    Anyway, @Moult gave me a tip that the order of annotations is controllable by changing the 'ZIndex' in EPset_Annotation. For me this was a big part in making a drawing look good. If something 3D is wrong, it can now be fixed however you want! (Of course the lesser the better).

    As I couldn't find any result for ZIndex on this forum, here you go!

    Example of before and after:

    Dimensions, lines, screws etc were invisible because of 'random' export order

    With ZIndex

    Other related things:

    • adding fill-bg to text annotations makes bg white

    • Dimensions have the option "ShowDescriptionOnly" in BBIM_Dimension pset. This shows only the value you put in the description (blank if nothing is put in). Is it possible to add this option to Section levels and plan levels too?

    If there are other options like fill-bg nobody knows about, is it possible to add these as a button/toggleable option? This way you would know they exist.

    Cheers!

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