Hi Tony,

> I also agree - bounding box size is not much use to me.
> Never even thought of it that way (bounding box that is) :-)

The basic idea is that it gives you some general idea of the size of your object.

Like if you see sizes over there of something like 2000 x 1000 x 5000 , you can have an idea that your object is generally a few thousand units in size.

If you see something over there like 0.01 x 0.06 x 0.02 you can get an idea that your object is something around 0.05 units in size.

It's not an unusual thing for people to want to have some general idea of what kind of scale the object is set to, that's the general idea behind the bounding box readout there.

Otherwise when you have the grid turned off, it is pretty hard to get an idea of an object's size by just looking at it on the screen.


For special objects like lines and circles, it is possible to give a more precise and "orientation free" dimension result like a length or radius value. Those also work to give you an idea of the scale of the object as well, so those fit in nicely there.

If there is not an "orientation free" analytic value that can be used, then you just get the bounding box. If you want to control the frame of the bounding box that is used, that is possible to do with by setting your cplane first.


Anyway, that is some of the basic ideas and uses for this new widget.

- Michael