Beautiful drawing, Richard. I hope to be able to get to that point someday!

I just ran across this topic this morning, as I was having this same issue yesterday while drawing some building sections. I thought a hidden line in the plane of the section cut that was missing was causing the issue too. After playing with the model (unhiding the line) and trying, I found that the issue wasn't solved. After reading here, I went back and checked that no groups have textures.

Late last night, I came to the same conclusion as others have reached here. Include a third (for me) viewport to stack with my light and dark viewports for only 2d graphics. These would include faces to hide things beyond what I intend to show. Such as something touching the far end of a beam. Or things within a wall.

Question about stacking viewports though. If I stack my "2D Graphics" viewport on top, will its edge properties ovverride the properties of the cut edges of my main viewport? Or can you set a style with no edges, so that only faces are shown and the edge properties of a viewport below would be visible?

Just an update: I tried the rtf import from LibreOffice, and it works much better. Thanks!

It's actually numbers that I am having the space issue with. I have just noticed that bullets have the same issue.

I appreciate your help. I'll keep playing with it and maybe check out LibreOffice to see if I can make that a part of my process.

And maybe my rtf file issue is really an openoffice issue. The formatting for numbered lists is frustrating there as well.

My spacing issue is using a regular bounded text box, and formatting using the list tab under text style. Inserting a properly formatted rtf file is losing the formatting in the insertion.

I haven't played with the table function much. Maybe that's the answer, if I can hide the grid lines and resize the cells.

In Layout, is there any possible way to adjust the tab stop spacing after a bullet/number in a list? That half-inch space is taking up valuable drawing real-estate and is driving me nuts. My cumbersome workaround is to have one text-box for numbers and a separate text-box for the notes.

In the past, I have also experimented with creating my notes in open office, saving as .rtf, and then inserting into layout, and I lose the formatting I set up in the .rtf file anyway.

Thanks for any help.

Thanks JQL. I don't think that would work for me, as doing so would give every surface in my model that texture. Which would work for my scope drawings, but will not work for the rest of the design drawings. I will need to play around with it a bit.

Thanks Dave. Yes, stacking viewports is the answer. Not sure why I didn't think of that.

I appreciate it!

I normally apply materials to all of my entities so that they are visible in my design drawings. I am doing some scope drawings for a client, and for these particular sheets I am using Color By Layer to show the different scopes:

• Grey for existing to remain.
• Red for Demo.
• Green for New.
• Purple for Relocated (Old Location).
• Teal for Relocated (New Location).

My question is this: Is there a way to set a scene to color only those "status" layers by layer, but show materials for objects not on those layers? I would like to show some background (ground & sky), to match my normal design drawings.

I'm using Sketchup Pro 2017.

Thanks.