I'm trying to draw a rectangle around some text with some padding. I tried the textbox outline = rect at first because that seemed perfect, but there aren't any snaps on the rectangle shape so I can't do very much with it.

I want annotation text specifically so that I can edit it and also so that it gets exported to SVG etc. as filled.

How can I get the bounding box of some annotation text scaled by model units? I tried the command boundingBox and that gives an empty result. I also tried all of the bounding box script methods and properties and get a box of size 0 from all.

Is there something like an optional parameter that I can pass to one of the bounding box script methods to get it to include annotation text?

- Peer

Hi Peer, so for annotations the bounding box methods only consider the annotation's definition points. For an AnnotationText object, that's just one anchor point the same one that you pick in the Dim > Text command, and the same one you see if you turn on edit points. That's why you get a zero size bounding box.

The textbox size can be view dependent and the BoundingBox command and regular retrieval functions are not set up to gather view dependent information. So currently there isn't any way for a script to retrieve that particular information.

I'll add in a .getTextBoxOutline( viewport ) method on annotations that will return 4 points that are the corners of the textbox.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

Thanks for explaining more about how the bounding box methods work and why they work this way for annotation text. I'm looking forward to .getTextBoxOutline( viewport )

- Peer