Noobie here! I’m trying to learn and I am therefore creating simple sketches so far. I have created two boards that are at right angles to each other. Each board is 4’X8’ and 2" thick. Therefore when viewing from the front, the face of one board is visible while the 2" edge of the second is visibl…

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Description: You can edit the groups and hide the edges: [hide] Eneroth 3 has an extension: [SketchUp Extension Inspection: Visual Merge]

You can edit the groups and hide the edges: [hide] Eneroth 3 has an extension: [SketchUp Extension Inspection: Visual Merge]

Thanks Mike for the option. I have now learned something. This does make the like go away completely for the entire joint. However, it just needs to be hidden behind the tape. Above the tape the joint is still visible as well as the edge of the board. As the graphic is changed, the height (length) …

[image] Learning_Michael: Why doesn’t the thin tape hide the edge in the first place? This is due to how your graphics card handles WebGL and decides what edges should be shown and which ones should not. If you zoom in very close you’ll see the thin tape does hide the edges underneath. As you…

Also make sure that the material for the tape is not set to be transparent. (Ie, it should be fully opaque.) To test, write out an PNG image and see if the hidden edges still “bleed” through.

Only solution I know of would be to make the tape somewhat thicker. Yes this is a quirk that is rather ubiquitous in Sketchup.

Dave, You’re spot on. Zoom in and it goes away and zoom out, poof there they are. Ugh. This is quiet unfortunate. Are there are tricks that you know of to help this? Michael

[image] Joints (edges) visible through thin materials - How to hide? SketchUp for Web You can edit the groups and hide the edges: [hide] Eneroth 3 has an extension: [SketchUp Extension Inspection: Visual Merge]

The only solution I know is to hide the edges you don’t want to see. As @MikeWayzovski , mentions, there are extensions that can help IF you are using a desktop client version of SketchUp. It’s not at all difficult to hide the edges with native tools, though. Here’s a quick example. On the left is …

[Insulation%20Wall%20wTape%20(2)] I selected the tape group, edited it, selected all within the group and changed the material to some landscaping rock, exported as a png file. The line is still there unfortunately. Based on the other answers, it doesn’t sound like this is a “fixable” problem. I …

See my edit, above. [image] Learning_Michael: Based on the other answers, it doesn’t sound like this is a “fixable” problem. I either make the material thicker, move it further way from the object below, or just don’t zoom out. Frustrating. Understood. It’s a limitation of OpenGL and WebGL. …

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You can edit the groups and hide the edges:

Eneroth 3 has an extension:

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Joints (edges) visible through thin materials - How to hide?

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