# Show/render some lines

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/show-render-some-lines/190017>\
**Category:** Requests\
**Tags:** rendering\
**Created:** [March 20, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/show-render-some-lines/190017 "2025-03-20T12:53:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AHA\_Migration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AHA\_Migration](https://forums.chaos.com/u/AHA_Migration)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/show-render-some-lines/190017/1 "2025-03-20T12:53:33Z")

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Possibility to render some lines , using an object color or material

- currently the outlines function shows all edges
- to bypass this, currently i’m “piping” all curves and applying a material to the pipe

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_Submitted on AHA Ideas by Frederico Francisco (ENSCAPE-I-1622)._

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**Author:** ![Joachim\_Hirsch1](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/joachim_hirsch1/32/271260_2.png) [@Joachim\_Hirsch1](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Joachim_Hirsch1)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/show-render-some-lines/190017/2 "2025-03-21T00:00:00Z")

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Thanks for submitting your idea! But I’m afraid we are not entirely sure if we understood it correctly. Is it the same as this one ([https://chaosenscape.ideas.aha.io/ideas/ENSCAPE-I-1509](https://chaosenscape.ideas.aha.io/ideas/ENSCAPE-I-1509)) ? If not, what’s the difference?

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_Submitted on AHA Ideas._

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**Author:** ![AHA\_Migration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AHA\_Migration](https://forums.chaos.com/u/AHA_Migration)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/show-render-some-lines/190017/3 "2025-03-27T00:00:00Z")

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For example rendering a mountain with topography lines (if terrain is build in 3D sometimes having the topography lines helps to understand the topography). Building those lines in 3D (ex. piping) will mostly crash the PC)

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_Submitted on AHA Ideas by Frederico Francisco._

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**Author:** ![dilney](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/dilney/32/272855_2.png) [@dilney](https://forums.chaos.com/u/dilney)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/show-render-some-lines/190017/4 "2025-03-27T00:00:00Z")

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Thank you for the example. Currently we are exploring the possibility to render topography lines. Another user has added the idea to the Portal already therefore I will merge them.

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_Submitted on AHA Ideas._

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**Author:** ![AHA\_Migration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AHA\_Migration](https://forums.chaos.com/u/AHA_Migration)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/show-render-some-lines/190017/5 "2025-03-27T00:00:01Z")

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_AHA Ideas status: Pending._  
_Set during AHA Ideas to Discourse migration._