Hi,

 

 

I believe you will have to sort your features in the right order before the writer. See this article, under the heading "Layer sorting".

 

 

David

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Hi David,

 

 

 

thanks for your answer I read the article und tested the FMETypeSorter. It works if I have one writer/feature type (layer).

 

But I want to generate a few feature types/layers. And I want to regulate the draworder of these feature types/layers to each other and not the draworder inside one feature type/layer.  How can I sort it?

 

Do you have any other idea or tips?

 

 

 

Thanks a lot.

 

 

 

Heike

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Hi Heike,

 

 

I have never done this myself, but I suspect you will have to do something like this:

• for each feature from all input sources, assign a numeric value depending on which layer it belongs to in the DWG (layer id), where the value defines the z-order of the layer
• for each feature within the same layer, assign another numeric value that defines the internal draw order with the layer (feature id)
• At this stage, each and every feature to be written to the DWG has two sort IDs: layer id and feature id.
• Pass ALL the features through the same same Sorter, sorting first by the layer attribute (layer id) and secondly by the feature order (feature id)
• Your output features should now be sorted first by layer and secondly by their respective draw order within each layer
• The Sorter should be as close the the output feature types as possible

Let us know how this works (I'm curious myself).

 

 

David

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Hi David,

 

 

it works Thank you so much!

 

I created layer-IDs, send all features through the same sorter and then with testers to  the right writers!

 

 

Thank you!

 

 

Heike

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