Draw Order Manager for references

[barry2104]

I have a drawing with 6 Xrefs and want to visiually manage the draw order of These references to ensure the Hatching is at the bottom and the Fencing is at the top (for example).

I don't know that there is a built-in way that the draw order for Xrefs can be seen and amended.

I found this Picture online (based my example off the xref names) and I would like to get a Lisp to recreate this XRef Draw Order Manager, so that I can see the current draw order and Change it by selecting one (or more) Xref(s) and clicking on a "move up" or "move down" button to put them where they belong.

Only other way to do this that I'm Aware of is to select the Xref you want to be up top first, make its DO "down to bottom", then select the 2nd to top and again make it go "down to bottom" etc, but this is too time consuming

Does a sort of Xref DO Manager exist / can one be relatively easily created to be called up via a Lisp?

[pendean]

This same topic came up a few years ago in the VB forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net/manage-xref-draworder/td-p/6407481

Or you can place each XREF on its own layer (you probably should if you desire that level of control) and use this free LISP instead http://www.lee-mac.com/layerdraworder.html

[barry2104]

That exact forum is where I found my picture for the example!
But I’m not familiar with VB – can I get that “converted” into lisp form? Otherwise I wouldn’t know how to get that VB Code to work (where to paste that text into & load into CAD?)
Will look at LMac’s lisp, could be the easiest (quickest) solution

[ВeekeeCZ]

That layer order system makes sense to me. If you establish some simple logical naming system, we could write a very simple routine without the need to go to a dialog...

e.g.

_xref1-hatch

_xref2-contours

_xref3-....

It will take all layers named _xref#* and follow the order...