Render "Fill-styled" Items First - *12.1.SP4*
- Last UpdatedMay 17, 2023
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Description
When creating fillstyles (especially solid fill) the fillstyle evaluation might obscure other entities on the display. This depends on the order in which the content of the drawing is rendered and occurs for all entities that are rendered before the fill style. This order depends primarily on the colour of the fillstyle and secondarily on traversal order for that colour, something that has not been possible to control by user.
In Marine Drafting 12.1 SP4 it is possible to force "fill=styled" contours to be rendered before any other entities in the drawing, thus ensuring that they will not obscure any other information. Note that the order in which the "fill-styled" contours themselves are drawn is still out of user-control (i.e. "fill-styled" contours will obscure each other).
A new Drafting Default keyword FILL_STYLE_SEND_TO_BACK has been introduced for this purpose.
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Keyword: |
System default value: |
Explanation: |
Legal values: |
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FILL_STYLE_SEND_TO_BACK |
"Yes" |
Controls if contours with fill style should be drawn first |
"No" - The rendering order is determined by the system (depends primarily on colour and secondarily on traversal order) "Yes" - Contours with fillstyle will be drawn first, thus making sure nothing else is obscured by the fillstyle evaluation. |
Note 1: using this feature might slow down performance slightly (about 15%) during repaint operations.
Note 2: solid-filled contours in system components (for example, leader line terminator arrows in label components) will not be drawn first.
Benefits
Possibility to avoid contours with fillstyle to obscure other entites.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
For More Information
Only noted here.
Affected Programs
Hull Design, Marine Drafting