... the cross bearers and carpentry details, etc., the way to do that is to use the background picture shapes -- preferably using a metafile image. Most CAD programs can save files in WMF or EMF metafile format. It's an ancient Windows vector file format, largely forgotten, but extremely useful in equally ancient Templot. This is a sample WMF file from TurboCAD, loaded into a picture shape: 2_061223_110000000.png The great advantage of a metafile is that it can be zoomed to any size and still remain as crisp lines: 2_061229_300000000.png A metafile is a small file and has almost no impact of the panning and zooming response on the trackpad. Using a CAD program or other drawing package, you can create it to any level of detail you wish. CAD programs can also export baseboard designs as a DXF file, which can be imported directly into the background shapes. This also allows crisp zooming. The DXF import function is as old as the rest of the background shapes functions, so may not work too well with exports from modern CAD programs - ...