So how will this thing be solved....are we going to see usual layres in the next beta or something different...

Hi Kreten, I don't expect to have anything in this area for V1, it is something that I want to tackle for V2.

The usual CAD layer system has some limitations that I don't like. Like for example since each object goes only on one layer, you can't very easily have organizations like having a car where one wheel is on a layer "wheels", but also the 2 front wheels are on a layer "front half of car", as one example.

I want to have something that isn't limited in that manner. Also I don't really want to have separate systems for both groups and layers, they are performing similar duties so from my view it is bad to have totally different systems for them.

But I haven't had time yet to design a system that accomplishes these things, it will be very time consuming to design a good system for this, so that's why it is not going to be ready for V1, I just don't want to delay V1 for this.

- Michael

< and things are activated more with just simple left-clicks.
is not the dreary user of the mac users? :D

Are you thinking of something like tags and filters?

I don't care if silo provides some color based nameless grouping behaviour for quick-n-dirty visual grouping.

But having worked on a few moderately complicated models, I can tell you I do want the ability to name/label these groups as the complexity increases. Colorspaces can run out especially quickly before you start getting duplicate colors, or at least colors that look duplicate to the human eye.

I think that its safe to say that we all agree on the color system as not being the way to go.

I actually think that selecting objects and hitting a keystroke that automatically creates a group and adds this new group to the
project tree wth a default naming system could be a nice way to go.

> Are you thinking of something like tags and filters?

Yeah, something a bit along those lines.

I think would be good if you could take whatever was selected, and then add that as an "object set" that will show up in a browser list. An object should be able to belong to multiple sets, which is a lot different than layers - AutoCAD style layers is pretty restrictive in comparison because each object is assigned to only one layer.

- Michael