# Capability to draw boxes/borders?

**URL:** <https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/capability-to-draw-boxes-borders/634>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 6, 2023, 9:05am UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/capability-to-draw-boxes-borders/634 "2023-12-06T09:05:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![hooperbloob](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/librepcb.discourse.group/hooperbloob/32/48_2.png) [@hooperbloob](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/hooperbloob)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 9:05am UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/capability-to-draw-boxes-borders/634/1 "2023-12-06T09:05:45Z")

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I’d like to be able to draw dashed borders around some components to denote high-voltage or sensitive circuits. Can we add something like this under the Miscellaneous category?

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**Author:** ![ubruhin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c89c15/32.png) [@ubruhin](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/ubruhin)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 4:24pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/capability-to-draw-boxes-borders/634/2 "2023-12-08T16:24:08Z")

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Generally you can draw a polygon on the “Guide” layer to draw a box around a circuit. It’s just not possible to use a dashed line (see [Support dashed/dotted polygon outlines · Issue #812 · LibrePCB/LibrePCB · GitHub](https://github.com/LibrePCB/LibrePCB/issues/812)).

Or if I misunderstood your question, please clarify 🙂

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**Author:** ![hooperbloob](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/librepcb.discourse.group/hooperbloob/32/48_2.png) [@hooperbloob](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/hooperbloob)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/capability-to-draw-boxes-borders/634/3 "2023-12-08T17:20:53Z")

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Ah, I didn’t see that earlier request.

This was in reference to schematics only. I don’t think it would translate well for Gerber output, I’d leave that out.
