Visual tools and changing tree positions

Hi all.

I have been working on a rather large model over the last month or so. The last thing I did was to insert a bunch of visual tools to shoiw various statistics. That was when I discovered that visual tools (Screen locked) will be displayed as being behind other objects higher in the tree. I have attached a small model to illustrate this. My first question is this

• Is there a way to make Visual tools (Screen locked) display on top of objects higher in the tree?

A seemingly simple solution to this problem would be to move the visual tool in question higher up the tree. I tried finding a way to do this, and ended up having to create new empty object at the desired position in the tree, copy the object I wanted to move, insert in the empty spot, delete the original. I also had to go through the affected connections and straighten a few things up in the objects connected to the visual tools. My next question is as follows:

• Is there an easier way of rearranging the tree structure?

Thanks in advance for any input to this little conundrum of mine.

Originally Posted by Christian Norregaard

A seemingly simple solution to this problem would be to move the visual tool in question higher up the tree.

• Is there an easier way of rearranging the tree structure?

Hi Christian,

this behavious is discribed in the manual (3D Media > Transparency). You can change the rank of an object in tree with the command setrank(...) or with the GUI "Edit Highlighted Object" or "Edit Selected Objects" (View > Modeling Utilities).

I hope this helps.

greetings

Carsten

Thanks, Carsten.

That helped a lot.