# Lines in background showing on created drawings

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/lines-in-background-showing-on-created-drawings/209157>\
**Category:** Rhino for Windows\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [September 1, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/lines-in-background-showing-on-created-drawings/209157 "2025-09-01T00:17:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Reid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/stephen_reid/32/672183_2.png) [@Stephen\_Reid](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Stephen_Reid)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/lines-in-background-showing-on-created-drawings/209157/1 "2025-09-01T00:17:18Z")

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Windows

Rhino 8

Hi guys I am struggling with background lines showing in my layout drawings. I understand that this may just be a limitation of the software and Rhino is doing exactly what I’ve told it to but its making producing architectural drawings quite hard as lines behind objects make for a confusing drawing.

Any help in solving this would be appreciated?

 ![fixed glass for fourm](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/7/1/6/716163962bee0f979d8e0a8f1db722faac018001.png)

[1 Fixed glass finished for forum.3dm](https://discourse.mcneel.com/uploads/short-url/paiEJznV35zqpsA0r3TkwdzTjev.3dm) (1.5 MB)

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**Author:** ![milezee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/milezee/32/522471_2.png) [@milezee](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/milezee)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/lines-in-background-showing-on-created-drawings/209157/2 "2025-09-01T07:46:05Z")

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I create tons of layout pages, I often use the command ‘HideInDetail’ useful. I’m not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve but does using draw orders help with what you need-’SendtoBack’, ‘BringtoFront’ etc

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**Author:** ![wim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/wim/32/747482_2.png) [@wim](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/wim)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/lines-in-background-showing-on-created-drawings/209157/3 "2025-09-01T18:07:10Z")

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Hi Stephen -

> [@Stephen\_Reid](#):
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> I understand that this may just be a limitation of the software and Rhino is doing exactly what I’ve told it to but its making producing architectural drawings quite hard as lines behind objects make for a confusing drawing.

Thanks for that model.  
I’ve put this bug on the list as [RH-89147](https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-89147) ClippingDrawings: Background Edge Falsely Marked Visible

You can move the clipping plane to a different position to make that background edge go away. I haven’t found any position that triggers this and you’ll have to move it around a bit while watching the drawing update. In the model that I’ve attached to that bug report, I’ve created a rectangle, which center seems to do the trick.

Apart from that, you could use the clipped view of the 3D model directly to view and annotate in a detail that is set to a technical display mode.  
-wim

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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Reid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/stephen_reid/32/672183_2.png) [@Stephen\_Reid](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Stephen_Reid)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/lines-in-background-showing-on-created-drawings/209157/4 "2025-09-01T23:01:01Z")

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Thanks Wim!

I had varying success with that, especially when I have a head and sill, one will show one won’t. Would you mind elaborating on this a little -

**" Apart from that, you could use the clipped view of the 3D model directly to view and annotate in a detail that is set to a technical display mode."**

I’m still new to Rhino, if you could explain that a little more that would be great.

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**Author:** ![wim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/wim/32/747482_2.png) [@wim](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/wim)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/lines-in-background-showing-on-created-drawings/209157/5 "2025-09-02T10:11:26Z")

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Hi Stephen -

> [@Stephen\_Reid](#):
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> I’m still new to Rhino, if you could explain that a little more that would be great.

Here’s your file with a duplicated layout where all details reference the 3D geometry directly.  
I didn’t recreate all annotations, but the ones that I made are all on the layout.  
You’ll want to turn off hidden lines in the `Technical` display mode.  
When you print this to vector PDF, all edges will be printed as vector lines.  
 → [1 Fixed glass finished for forum-Fake2D.3dm](https://discourse.mcneel.com/uploads/short-url/6fyoc451rDZqEWQSBoHFr5YA9R.3dm) (4.3 MB)  
-wim