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Layer Direction: Trace

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Last updated: Nov 05, 2024
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Layer Direction in Trace

Layer Direction in Trace

Layer Direction: Top Down

  • 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.

  • 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.

Top Down Layer Direction

Layer Direction: Bottom Up

  • 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.

Bottom Up Layer Direction

Default Settings

Default Settings