Effect > Distort & transform > Stacking order
Sometimes you have a group of objects that are not in the correct stacking order, and you have to expand the effects that generate these objects to fix it.
I propose a new effect that offers a few options to change this:
- reverse stacking order
- stack left-to-right, right-to-left, up-to-down, down-to-up, or maybe just an angle dial for stacking order? that'd be super useful for "I drew three balls and blended them to make a necklace and I don't want to have to split it into two blends to make the right ball be the nearest one".
- smallest-to-largest, largest-to-smallest
Margaret Trauth
shared this idea
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Meanwhile Rick Johnson has Toolshed plugin: https://rj-graffix.com/downloads/plugins/#toolshed
One of its free features is Stacking Order, a set of commands to do most of the things you want.
Not an effect, I know, but a way to do it anyway.Another solution would be the Organize script by John Wundes:
https://js4ai.blogspot.com/2012/02/organize.html
https://github.com/johnwun/js4ai/blob/master/organize.jsx -
A related request:
'Reverse Order' option for Transform Effect
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39425077
