... on which forum. Apologies if it was you, my memory is now hopeless. There are several ways to show baseboard outlines on the trackpad and on the printed output. Using: 1. background shapes 2. dummy track templates 3. background picture shapes- metafiles 4. background picture shapes- bitmaps 5. sketchboard items There wouldn't need to be so many options if the background shapes were not still the primitive drawing functions unchanged for 25 years, but we are where we are -- background> shapes menu item. 2_061128_210000000.png A is a simple rectangle shape, always square to the grid. For a baseboard there is a quick way of creating them, including lots of pre-set sizes, at background> add a quick baseboard outline> menu items. To use the background shapes for other straight-sided polygons and rotated rectangles, it is necessary to draw individual line shapes for the baseboard edges, as at B. If you need a curved or wavy baseboard edge, as at C, the way to do that is using a ...