I have a student who is hand-making a dragon out of slices. I have the education version so I can try all plugins. Using the multiple envelope plugin, I created envelopes that were 11x17.
The objects are flat slices 5mm high on about a 18 in (300mm) high project, so about 60 slices. They are _already_ 10"x16" so that they are a printable rectangle showing the slice. I hit arrange, and they all lay out inside the envelopes. Perfect! However, some are rotated 180 degrees, and they aren't in _order_ from top to bottom or anything like that.
Now, that part may be an artifact of the way I generated my slices. I create a sketch I call a 'comb' and put a box around the project from the side. Then I create a rectangular box the height of one layer less a little bit, and I rectangular pattern that slicebox upwards so that it covers the entire project, and extrude it through. In this case, the boxes were 4mm and the rectangular pattern was 5mm, so there was a 1mm slice between the layers. I apologize for the dual units, it's the product size it's being made from.
So when those layers got made, they were made in no discernible order, and as far as I can tell, component creation is order-dependent, so you can't reorder them in the window even if you rename them one by one.
So issues with arrange -
1) why can't they at least all have the same orientation? I just went through and hand selected them one by one (60 layers), and it lined them up with the same direction as they were selected.
2) Why isn't there another way to create and _keep_ layers. Sometimes one wants to do some additive style work by hand, writ large. If I had a slicer tool, then I could hopefully label them in an order from top to bottom.
3) It would be great to be able to emboss a number on every envelope when using multi-envelope.
4) There should be a way to match the arranged envelopes to PDF pages without having to add each component in the arrange a new sheet in the drawing one at a time.
