# Home screen tab explained
**URL:** https://community.inventables.com/t/home-screen-tab-explained/134405
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 21, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-screen-tab-explained/134405 "2022-08-21T01:33:07Z")
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### Author:  [@Tmed](https://community.inventables.com/u/Tmed)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-screen-tab-explained/134405/1 "2022-08-21T01:33:08Z")
hello all, new easel and new cnc user here. would like to say thanks to all of you for posting the things you do. i’ve learned a lot and am getting better and having a blast using my x carve.
i was wondering if anyone can tell me if there is a link or a place to find the information about easel home screen. in particularly the edit tab. trying to figure out what the “send to back/backwards” “bring to front/forward”. what do these tabs do? how do you use them? i’ve seen some videos online, but i just dont get it. if anyone has a link or cheat sheet that explains the use they could share, it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks everyone.
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### Author:  [@BrandonR\_Parker](https://community.inventables.com/u/BrandonR_Parker)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-screen-tab-explained/134405/2 "2022-08-21T01:46:15Z")
Just like a modern operating system has windows that have a Z-Order (depth order; i.e. which one is on top of the other), Easel also has this for each shape/group of shapes. This can be helpful in quite a few situations.
For instance, this is an image of a project that I have been working on. Sometimes during the designing process, I want to add an additional shape somewhere at a deeper depth than other objects that will be above it. I can simply create the new shape and “Send backwards” until I get it between the two shapes that it needs to be to create the overall cut profile that I am after.
The piece that I am pointing to could have been created last out of all of the other objects and just moved into the proper place in the objects’ Z-Order. The entire track actually goes up under that grill section.
There are tons of youtube videos out there…
Check out these two creators’ channels for all kinds of great content:
1. [https://www.youtube.com/c/sethcnc](https://www.youtube.com/c/sethcnc)
2. [https://www.youtube.com/c/PawPaw’sWorkShop](https://www.youtube.com/c/PawPaw%E2%80%99sWorkShop)
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Brandon R. Parker
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### Author:  [@SethCNC](https://community.inventables.com/u/SethCNC)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-screen-tab-explained/134405/3 "2022-08-21T02:11:54Z")
I think Brandon did a great job of explaining it!!
I happened to put together a super short video a week back explaining a different function to someone else **and** the video also happens to talk about the layering and moving forward and backwards to use the feature I was showing off, I figured I’ll include it to show another reason one might need to adjust the layering… [Quick Tip - Layering and a Eraser type trick in Easel - (unlisted) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykS11Leba1E)
That said, I agree with Brandon that PawPaw has some excellent tutorials, I scrolled through to check for one about layering and even the ones I thought he talked about the function I couldn’t find one that shows adjusting the layers, he usually just designs in the correct order from bottom to top, which puts the layers in the correct order already… I might just have to make a longer, better video delving into layering a bit 😉
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### Author:  [@Tmed](https://community.inventables.com/u/Tmed)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-screen-tab-explained/134405/4 "2022-08-27T03:07:16Z")
thank you brandon and seth. i definitely have a better understanding now.
got some practice in and its all coming together.
thank you gentlemen 👍
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.inventables.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-screen-tab-explained/134405/5 "2022-11-25T03:07:38Z")
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