Custom sorting/grouping of layers and reference files?

[Fred_K]

Hi,

Layers are displayed in the order of creation ("custom" sorting). If they are then sorted alphabetically by clicking on the name (Primary or Secondary Layer Name), intentionally or accidentally, you lose that "custom" sorting. Other than changing the name of the layers to then "force-sort", there is no way to change the order of the layers (moving up and down, or dragging & dropping, or adding an additional hierarchy column for numbering...). Is there a way to add this feature?

Reference layers are sorted alphabetically by default. But when the list blows up, it could add difficulty in navigation - one may want to sort or group reference layers thematically. Due to the automatic alphabetic sorting, renaming the layers is the only way for now. Could there be a feature that allows such grouping of reference files, for example by adding sub-layers/different parent layers in the reference files tab?

Best regards,

Frédéric

 

[Martin Griffith]

Hi Frédéric,

Thanks for your question. After sorting the layers automatically, to get back to the original order by creation, you should be able to go to the Edit menu of the Presets form, and click on Sort by Index. This will sort the preset in the tab by the index order, which will match the order of creation. 

However, testing it now, it appears this tool is not connected to work on the layer presets. I think this is a bug in the software. We will fix it for the next version of Ventsim. 

The idea of grouping references has come up before and is something that we want to do. We have noted your interest and will seek to do this soon, perhaps in the next maor release. 

regards,

Martin