Hi Michael,

I understand what you are trying to do with MoI and I agree that the layer systems you're showing there are restrictive, the reason why I couldn't understand where you were coming from, is because I was used to a whole different system.
The layer system that most other cad vendors have followed is from Autocad, which I don't think has ever evolved from the 2d world of past. I wonder how Autodesk handled Mechanical Desktop's layer system.

> At any rate, the Groups mechanism is meant to be
> a kind of container system, it may more closely align
> to the layers that you are accustomed to.

No doubt when Groups are implemented, MoI will be flexible enough to accommodate different ways of object organization, keep up the good work.

Cheers

Hi Danny, yeah they are kind of restrictive which is why I didn't want to jump right into having only that system for organizing objects and nothing else...

However on the other hand, those kinds of layers are pretty simple and easy to understand, and also are very widely used to control color.

It's that common connection with color that I was trying to demonstrate with those screen shots from various other programs.


So anyway, that's why mapping styles in MoI to layers in certain CAD-type export formats seems to be a good matchup.

- Michael