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Layer Direction in Trace

Layer Direction: Top Down

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  • Take note that the Layer Direction of Bottom Up or Top Down controls how the mat layers are numbered in Trace

    • The Top mat layer is always displayed at the top of the Layers list.  

    • Layer direction Top Down counts down from the top mat.

    • In this example, the top mat is labeled Layer 1, and the next layer down is labeled Layer 2, and the bottom mat is Labeled as Layer 3.

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  • Layer Direction: Bottom Up is the preferred direction.

    • When you Offset an object to create another layer, that new layer will be the Top layer.

  • Layer Direction: Top Down is not recommended.

    • When you Offset an object to create another layer, that new layer will be the Bottom layer, even though it is larger than the original object.

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  • Default Settings: See Admin > Defaults for the default settings for the Layer Direction.

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Layer Direction: Bottom Up

Info
  • Take note that the Layer Direction of Bottom Up or Top Down controls how the mat layers are numbered in Trace

    • The Top mat layer is always displayed at the top of the Layers list.  

    • Layer direction Bottom Up counts up from the bottom mat. 

    • The bottom mat is labeled Layer 1, and the next layer up is labeled Layer 2, and in this example, the top mat is Labeled 3.

Panel
panelIconId1f9d9-200d-2640-fe0f
panelIcon:woman_mage:
panelIconText🧙‍♀️
bgColor#FFEBE6
  • Layer Direction: Bottom Up is the preferred direction.

    • When you Offset an object to create another layer, that new layer will be the Top layer.

  • Layer Direction: Top Down is not recommended.

    • When you Offset an object to create another layer, that new layer will be the Bottom layer, even though it is larger than the original object.

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Default Settings

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