Overlapping viewports

I have a AutoCAD 2004 drawing layout that has some overlapping viewports.
The viewports show model entities that include solids and raster images.

The drawing editor and print preview display the viewports in the order
order they were created: first created goes to the background. This is OK.

But when I plot, the viewports are plotted in reverse order: last created is
plotted first and goes to the background (which I can see if I watch the
command line). The resulting plot is bad. The entities in the overlapped
viewport overlap each other in the wrong unintended order.

I tried the draworder command, but this only affects the viewport boundary,
not the contents of the viewport. Depending on the drawing, I can avoid the
problem by having the plotter "merge" colors, but this isn't satisfactory
because I need to be able to overlap them as well, for wipeouts to work for
example. Plotting paperspace first or last doesn't matter.

This problem exists on all different plotters and drivers that I've tested,
including the GDI driver.

Is there some way to affect the viewport plot order and sync it with the
plot preview and the drawing editor display?

Thanks,
Paul Limburg

 

Dean,
The PLOT PAPERSPACE LAST option has no effect.

Also, I finally was able to search past posts. Seems like this issue has
come up before with only solution being to eliminate the overlap.

References:
kturner: plotting multiple viewports with raster images, 7/21/2003 8:20 AM
markgardiner: plotting order of viewport, 6/11/2001 3:54 PM

Paul.





Paul Limburg