diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4f241e9e6..063cfe1d8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4206,7 +4206,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "opencadcodec"
 version = "0.5.5"
-source = "git+https://github.com/ramox81/cadcodec.git?rev=07191be#07191be6571c43d8334eb7da02e6d42283246628"
+source = "git+https://github.com/ramox81/cadcodec.git?rev=24bdac7#24bdac79787a8196227c43cc840277f302e7e124"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash 0.8.12",
  "anyhow",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 138a3301c..1ac2ede73 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ iced_core = { git = "https://github.com/iced-rs/iced.git", rev = "23604ff22ab0aa
 iced_widget = { git = "https://github.com/iced-rs/iced.git", rev = "23604ff22ab0aad9e00b9327cb7b8546ed84db39" }
 
 [patch."https://github.com/HakanSeven12/opencadcodec.git"]
-opencadcodec = { git = "https://github.com/ramox81/cadcodec.git", rev = "07191be" }
+opencadcodec = { git = "https://github.com/ramox81/cadcodec.git", rev = "24bdac7" }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
 getrandom = "0.3"
diff --git a/src/entities/field.rs b/src/entities/field.rs
index 29af2e20b..d8d6d5bf1 100644
--- a/src/entities/field.rs
+++ b/src/entities/field.rs
@@ -299,6 +299,12 @@ pub fn set_display(on: bool) {
 }
 
 /// The gray the reference draws behind a field.
+/// FIELDDISPLAY box extent around a line of field text, in text heights:
+/// from a third of the height below the baseline to 1.19 heights above it
+/// (the reference's box, measured at 2.5 and 10 unit text).
+pub const BOX_BELOW: f64 = 0.345;
+pub const BOX_ABOVE: f64 = 1.19;
+
 pub const BACKGROUND: [f32; 4] = [203.0 / 255.0, 203.0 / 255.0, 203.0 / 255.0, 1.0];
 
 /// Whether `entity` hosts a field: its extension dictionary has ACAD_FIELD.
diff --git a/src/entities/table.rs b/src/entities/table.rs
index ebe5e3a7f..81b154042 100644
--- a/src/entities/table.rs
+++ b/src/entities/table.rs
@@ -1525,6 +1525,7 @@ pub fn tessellate_table(
 
     // Accumulators keyed by quantised colour (+ weight for borders).
     let mut fills: HashMap<[u8; 4], ([f32; 4], Vec<[f32; 3]>)> = HashMap::default();
+    let mut field_fills: Vec<[f32; 3]> = Vec::new();
     // SDF cell text: glyph quads (per-vertex coloured) collected across all
     // cells; emitted as one text-carrying wire at the end.
     let mut text_verts: Vec<crate::scene::pipeline::text_gpu::TextVertex> = Vec::new();
@@ -1972,6 +1973,50 @@ pub fn tessellate_table(
                     vertical_text: false,
                     want_glyph_boxes: false,
                 });
+                // FIELDDISPLAY: a field cell's text on a gray box, one per line,
+                // from the same layout's character cells (screen only).
+                if content.field_handle.is_some() && crate::entities::field::display() {
+                    let cells = layout_mtext(&MTextRenderOpts {
+                        columns: Default::default(),
+                        value: text,
+                        insertion: [to.x as f64, to.y as f64, to.z as f64],
+                        height: cell_h,
+                        rect_w: (col_width - margin_left - margin_right).max(0.0),
+                        rotation: rot,
+                        style: &resolved,
+                        attach_h_anchor,
+                        v_anchor,
+                        line_spacing_factor: 1.0,
+                        exact_line_spacing: false,
+                        rectangle_height: 0.0,
+                        vertical_text: false,
+                        want_glyph_boxes: true,
+                    })
+                        .glyph_boxes;
+                    let (sin_r, cos_r) = (rot as f64).sin_cos();
+                    let mut lines: Vec<[f64; 4]> = Vec::new();
+                    for b in &cells {
+                        let [l, base, r, top] = b.local.map(|v| v as f64);
+                        match lines.last_mut() {
+                            Some(c) if (c[1] - base).abs() <= 1e-3 * (top - base).max(c[3]) => {
+                                c[0] = c[0].min(l);
+                                c[2] = c[2].max(r);
+                                c[3] = c[3].max(top - base);
+                            }
+                            _ => lines.push([l, base, r, top - base]),
+                        }
+                    }
+                    for [l, base, r, h] in lines.into_iter().filter(|[l, _, r, _]| r > l) {
+                        let (b, t) = (base - crate::entities::field::BOX_BELOW * h, base + crate::entities::field::BOX_ABOVE * h);
+                        let w = |x: f64, y: f64| [
+                            (to.x as f64 + x * cos_r - y * sin_r) as f32,
+                            (to.y as f64 + x * sin_r + y * cos_r) as f32,
+                            to.z as f32,
+                        ];
+                        let q = [w(l, b), w(r, b), w(r, t), w(l, t)];
+                        field_fills.extend([q[0], q[1], q[2], q[0], q[2], q[3]]);
+                    }
+                }
                 let tcol = if selected {
                     sel_col
                 } else if !matches!(
@@ -2131,6 +2176,11 @@ pub fn tessellate_table(
             out.push(mk(color, vec![], tris, 1.0));
         }
     }
+    if !field_fills.is_empty() {
+        let mut background = mk(crate::entities::field::BACKGROUND, vec![], field_fills, 1.0);
+        background.plot_visible = false;
+        out.push(background);
+    }
     for (_, (color, lw, pts)) in borders {
         if !pts.is_empty() {
             out.push(mk(color, pts, vec![], lw));
diff --git a/src/scene/convert/tessellate.rs b/src/scene/convert/tessellate.rs
index d7afd0298..d57c5ddbb 100644
--- a/src/scene/convert/tessellate.rs
+++ b/src/scene/convert/tessellate.rs
@@ -78,11 +78,7 @@ fn oriented_text_corners(
     ]
 }
 
-/// FIELDDISPLAY box extent around a line of field text, in text heights:
-/// from a third of the height below the baseline to 1.19 heights above it
-/// (the reference's box, measured at 2.5 and 10 unit text).
-const FIELD_BOX_BELOW: f64 = 0.345;
-const FIELD_BOX_ABOVE: f64 = 1.19;
+use crate::entities::field::{BOX_ABOVE as FIELD_BOX_ABOVE, BOX_BELOW as FIELD_BOX_BELOW};
 
 /// FIELDDISPLAY boxes: each field's shown text, one box per line it spans,
 /// placed from the text layout itself, in the text's own (rotated) frame —