Re: Ordering autoshapes

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:27:01 -0700, Steve Vincent
<SteveVincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I have lots of experience in MS Office apps with drawing objects, and have
used the Order commands (Send to back, Send to front, Send backwards, etc.)
extensively. But this is a real head-scratcher:

I have eight curved block-arrows, "chasing each other" around in a circle.
The arrowhead of each one overlaps (lays on top of) the "tail" of the next,
so the arrowheads are always on top, and the "tails" are always underneath
the previous arrowhead. I can "stack" them just fine, until the "last one",
where the entire block arrow is on top of the previous and next autoshape. I
have been experimenting with a combination of "Send to front" and "Send
backward" and "Send forward", but can't seem to find that perfect combination
to "fan" these objects so they overlap equally all around the "circle".
(Wish I could show you a graphic, that would be much easier to describe).

Any advice on "ordering" objects in this rubicks-cube kind of way?

TIA,
Steve

Logically, there is no way to achieve this effect with object order alone. There
will always be one object at the top of the stack and one at the bottom of the
stack, and the bottom one _cannot_ overlap the top one.

The way around this (similar to the method used in creating special banner
effects in web pages) is to "fake" the last overlap. Make a triangle shape that
matches the part of the bottom arrow that would overlap the top one, and place
that at the top of the stack so it matches up to the visible part of the
bottom-most shape.

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