AutoCAD Certification Example - DrawOrder

[204squares]

Hello,

Can someone explain which three are correct?  It looks like to me they are all correct!?  Thanks in advance!

43. What does the DRAWORDER command allow you to do in the drawing? (Select three.)

Select 3 answers below.

• Bring Text to Front
• Bring Hatches to Front
• Bring Dimensions to Front
• Bring Leaders to Front
• Send All Annotations to Back

[TheCADnoob]

The answer can be found here : https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2021/ENU/AutoC....

[204squares]

Thanks for the link to the DrawOrder command, but what's the correct answer?  Am I right that if you select all of the items listed in the question, you can send them to the front / back?  

[pendean]

Which three are correct for what please?

[TheCADnoob]

I believe you should have enough of the puzzle pieces to figure it out. Open AutoCAD and test the commands and the elements. You will gain more from testing the options than you would gain from me telling you the answer. 

[204squares]

You're supposed to select three of the bulleted statements, shown below

43. What does the DRAWORDER command allow you to do in the drawing? (Select three.)

Select 3 answers below.

• Bring Text to Front
• Bring Hatches to Front
• Bring Dimensions to Front
• Bring Leaders to Front
• Send All Annotations to Back

[204squares]

I drew a hatch, put text, a leader, and a dimension on top of it.  Selected combinations of the same and sent to front / back.  What are you saying?  Thanks

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

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@204squares wrote:

.... What are you saying? ....

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They're saying that it seems more than three of the choices are correct, so how can they answer with only the three requested, and which ones?

[204squares]

Thank you Kent! That's all i was looking for, confirmation that the question is worded incorrectly or incorrect possible answers provided. It makes it more difficult to study something when the examples are incorrect...

[Kent1Cooper]

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@204squares wrote:
.... That's all i was looking for, confirmation that the question is worded incorrectly or incorrect possible answers provided. It makes it more difficult to study something when the examples are incorrect...

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I disagree that the question is worded incorrectly.  Re-read the beginning of Message 1, which seems perfectly clear to me.  And yes, "the examples are incorrect" in the sense that they don't allow the test question to be answered as asked, but they're the test question's incorrect examples, not incorrect on the part of the OP -- that's exactly what the OP is asking about.

Here's a wild-ass guess scenario I can imagine:  A woefully-less-than-adequately-experienced user wrote the question, based in part on their use of Hatch patterns with the HPDRAWORDER System Variable set to 1, which puts all Hatch patterns behind everything else [when drawn].  So they "knew" that Hatch patterns are always behind everything else, and wrote the question with the intent that the choice about DRAWORDER being able to bring Hatches to the front is "wrong."  But they just didn't know that 1) there are other HPDRAWORDER settings that don't do that, and 2) even with it set to 1, after being drawn behind everything else, a Hatch pattern can still be brought to the front with DRAWORDER.

As for a second one they may have intended to be considered "wrong," maybe it's the last one, if by that they meant there's no option within the command to do all and only annotations specifically.  But if you simply select all annotations yourself within the command, it will put them wherever in the draw order you choose.

Both are impossible scenarios if the question writer knows the software well enough to be writing questions about it, but I suppose one cannot always assume they do.  I suggest filing a complaint with whoever is giving the test.