Maintaining DRAWORDER of blocks to always be FRONT or BACK

[Anonymous]

using: AutoCAD LT 2007 & AutoCAD Electrical 2014 (but I'm not using full Electrical capabilities. For this project I'm using it like LT) I have a drawing that acts as a template (saved as a DXF file). What I'm doing: The idea is that there are several blocks on this drawing. One that is static (the backplate / panel) and others that are meant to populate (blocks with wipeouts, relays, terminals, etc...). We're talking 2D drawings here, no 3D stuff. The backplate, which never moves, is set to "DRAWORDER=BACK". A third party program (yes, it's a bad word I know) then populates the backplate with terminals and relays, which are originally set to "DRAWORDER=FRONT" Problem: It does a fine job, however, the "DRAWORER" is now disregarded and the user has to manually bring the relays / terminals to "DRAWORDER FRONT". I know this doesn't seem like a big deal but some of my co-workers really want this to be fixed (mainly because they want to be able to run their software without having to use AutoCAD. Licenses aren't in abundance here). Question: Is there a way to force certain things to always be BACK or FRONT? Regardless of who's using with version of AutoCAD? Using REGEN doesn't work. I've tried looking at other solutions but nothing seems to work. Any help is appreciated, Lou

[pendean]

Only text and hatch objects can be preset to be back or front draworder settings: everything else you have to manually handle. Look up the variables in HELP, enter this topic title in the help bar in AutoCAD:

Commands for Object Display Control

FWIW... as a general rule last thing drawn is almost always on top/above everything else.

[leothebuilder]

I was looking for something more permanent too to maintain draw order but I guess this is something elusive.

Sometimes when editing a block the draw order needs to be reset, even for hatch and text objects.

The draworder preset for hatch objects is fine for when the hatch object is created, but does not remain constant.

Sometimes I use a negative Z offset for hatch objects to maintain draw order but that create other problems.