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Chapter 23 Work in the Environment 757
Work with Environment layers
Environment layers overview
The Environment can quickly ll up with a large number of objects. To keep things organized,
you can assign objects to dierent display levels, referred to as layers. Think of layers as being
dierent, partial views of the overall Environment. You can easily connect objects between
dierent layers.
The distribution of objects across dierent layers has no eect on their functionality—its
simply a better way to organize objects. The name of the current layer is shown in the Layer
pop-up menu.
Layer pop-up menu
The position and existence of the rst two layers—All Objects and Global Objects—is protected,
and they cannot be deleted.
All Objects: This layer displays all objects in the Environment. The objects in this layer are
normally shown as a list. To switch to the selected object’s layer, choose Options > Go to Layer
of Object in the Environment menu bar.
Global Objects: In this layer, you can place objects that you want to be visible in all layers. These
objects appear at the same position in all layers. Try to assign as few objects as possible to this
layer, due to the onscreen clutter that global objects can create.