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The Layers manager is excellent and essential however I'm finding one aspect of it to be very clumsy.

 

If you have all layers turned on and would like to start creating geometry on one particular layer there is no way in one click to select that particular layer as the "default" or "current creation layer" (the one with the Star).

 

Currently the only way to get the layer you want to create geometry in to be "active" or "the one with the star" is to deselect all the others and the star sequentially cycles through (up or down) to an active layer.

 

Would be very nice here if either

 

1) There was an initial third column that you could one click the star to. As in, you want a certain layer to be the current geometry creation layer, you select a button to set it in one click.

2) Instead of adding a "star column" you could "right-click" the current star/check mark column for any particular layer and that one click would set that layer as the "starred" layer.

3) Or add a new orthagonal right-click entry in the layer section that says something like "set default >" and then calls a list of all layers that you can select. That would be 2 clicks but still way better.

 

As I mentioned above and I'm sure many of you are familiar with, the current implementation has you deselecting a bunch of layers just to move the star around to the layer you want.

 

Clearly the work around is to create the geometry and then select it and --> move to layer however this gets tedious when you're creating a bunch of geometry on a particular layer or switching between two-three layers and it would be very nice to just select the layer you want to be starred default creation layer.

 

Is this in the works already for DR or is there a simple way to perform this?

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That would be a neat feature. Unfortunately, the number of people around here that know the DR code is small. Greebo and Orbweaver have done the lion's share of the work on it.

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I pm'ed Orbweaver, but I suppose he doesn't come here too often and as I recall this forum doesn't send out e-mail notifications when you get pm :/

 

Got response \o/ Sounds like it maybe a royal pain to deal with, but we will try our best.

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