Changing drawing order of viewports

It seems AutoCAD doesn't allow you to change the drawing order of
viewports. Does anyone know a way to do this? Send to back etc doesn't
work.

Test: create a circle with a solid red bhatch, and another with yellow.
Create two viewports, one showing each circle. Move one viewport so it
is on top of the other. Now either the red circle or the yellow circle
should appear to be on top. Try to change the order so the other one
appears to be on top.

 

You're driving Acad like its Adobe Illustrator. It's not, though I'm
curious, how does it render this situation? Have you tried DRAWORDER to put
the one you want on top.... on top?

 

After testing, it appears to draw them in the reverse order that they
appear in the list. Bizarre.

And objects can't be stacked above and below them, as the viewports are
always drawn in a separate plane from the rest of the paper space
objects. Bizarre reprise.

So when are they going to finish implementing the concept of "paper
space"?

(note: just tested with 2005; haven't set up 2006 yet.)

 

Does that relate to the "birth order" of the viewports in any way?

Like I said, this isn't a graphics program, sadly.

 

Well, I'm driving it like it's VectorWorks, where the viewports are
like any other object and draw in whatever order I tell them to,
annotations can be both above and below, and half the viewports don't
appear blank if I try anything other than 2D wireframe (another AutoCAD
problem).

DRAWORDER doesn't do anything for viewports.

 

I cut my CAD teeth on MiniCAD. AutoCAD doesn't do two-dimensional objects
very well. It's a big adjustment.

As for the DRAWORDER comment, it was for the object in modelspace, not the
port.

 

DRAWORDER works ok for non-viewports, but I was hoping to be able to
find a way to export an arbitrary VectorWorks document with possible
annotations above and below viewports in paper space (in addition to
annotations in model space that should show in the viewport), and also
supporting stacked viewports the same. It doesn't look like there's any
way to do that, so the VectorWorks side will have to be careful to use
only what AutoCAD supports.