layers not in alphabetical order

[colton.determan]

I have recently been having issues with my layer manager and layer control. When I start a project, all the layers are in the correct order. If at any time I sort layers in layer manager (by color, plot style, etc.) and the sort back to “by name” they don’t go back to alphabetical order in the layer control. I think it is sorting the layers by the most recent layer??? Like if I create a new layer it drops it down to the bottom of the list…

Please help it is really REALLY annoying!

Thank you,

Colton

[jggerth1 · Accepted solution]

how many layers?

and what is the MAXSORT setting?

[colton.determan]

thousand plus or minus with xrefs

I bet that's what it is! I'll let you know thank you

[rkmcswain · Accepted solution]

Just set MAXSORT to 32767 and you're done.

[KLYPHY]

A little interesting history.]

In my  AutoCAD Notes, back in 2006, I made this entry:

"The limit is in the neighborhood of 55,000 plus/minus."

From AutoCAD Discussion Groups: Jason Piercey: Jun/13/06 - 20:19(GMT)-Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator

I figured that since he was an Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator, he might know.

I noted that number was considerably higher than the 32,767 maximum in MAXSORT.

I just checked AutoCAD HELP and found the following entry:

"NoteThe number of layers that you can create in a drawing and the number of objects that you can create on each layer are practically unlimited."

"Unlimited" sounds like a whole lot more than 32,767 or even 55,000.

Curious, but, I've definitely need to find some better way to spend my time.

Read Y'all Later -KLYPH

[KLYPHY]

Where did all those adds at the end of my posting come from?

[KLYPHY]

Here's one of the many AutoCAD Jokes that I found on the Internet:

Many of us have never had to worry about MAXSORT, so we forget about it.

The joke is to set MAXSORT to 2.

WARNING:  To such extent as is not contraindicated by Office Policies, one shouldn't play jokes on Office Members on Office Time.

[rkmcswain]

KLYPHY wrote:

A little interesting history.]

In my  AutoCAD Notes, back in 2006, I made this entry:

"The limit is in the neighborhood of 55,000 plus/minus."

From AutoCAD Discussion Groups: Jason Piercey: Jun/13/06 - 20:19(GMT)-Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator

I figured that since he was an Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator, he might know.

I noted that number was considerably higher than the 32,767 maximum in MAXSORT.

I just checked AutoCAD HELP and found the following entry:

"NoteThe number of layers that you can create in a drawing and the number of objects that you can create on each layer are practically unlimited."

"Unlimited" sounds like a whole lot more than 32,767 or even 55,000.

Curious, but, I've definitely need to find some better way to spend my time.

Read Y'all Later -KLYPH

I believe this is the thread to which you are referring.  Using the same code I posted there, on a much more powerful machine today using 2013 and 2015, I can't even get it to make 40,000 layers. Strange...

I don't have time to mess with it any more, but I did manage to get 20,000+ layers created in 2013.