Highlight detect tool - nested instances

[DanRathbun]

@3DxJFD

Do you actually need to highlight bounding boxes? What is the problem you’re trying to solve? Are you trying to hover around and find hidden geometry?

Yes, I myself do not understand why a user would want to highlight objects in nested contexts or hidden objects.

[DanRathbun]

@Cyentruk

        # 'Find all objects in active path'
        objects = find_parents(path, object)

        # Reverse to get the right active path because
        # active path must from model to deepest entity
        # then multiple transformation

        active_path = objects.reverse

Why not use: Model#active_path() and Model#edit_transform() as a start point?

[tenquin]

@DanRathbun

Yes, I myself do not understand why a user would want to highlight objects in nested contexts or hidden objects.

Imagine a wooden box with dynamic components. In the empty part of the box, there will be a hidden component (or it may not be hidden, but its lines are) that is responsible for storing information about the empty space, such as x, y, z, lenx, leny, and lenz. Highlight this component, retrieve its information, and place another one in its place. Basically, the dynamic component is a container for storing information that will be used in another component.

[tenquin]

Thank you for your code, I will test it further.

[tenquin]

Thanks…

[3DxJFD]

Before testing the code and trying some of the suggestions I did ask myself what the context is for highlighting the bounding boxes. Maybe some cool or weird thing is being devised? Or maybe there’s a better way to get results? I didn’t have a sense of clarity about the problem being solved. That’s why I was asking. I didn’t get a chance to try the latest suggestion…I see the OP typing…

[3DxJFD]

Is the wooden box a Dynamic Component? Is the box a rectangular solid (solid component)? The ‘empty space’ is like the volume of the shape and its ‘location’ is like where the bounding box is (or could be associated with that ‘location’) and there is an axis for this ‘location’…

It sounds like you want to swap one component for another. Select (or hover over) → Highlight → swap.

What’s the ‘information’ to retrieve? SketchUp kinda ‘knows’ where the first component is when you select it.

[tenquin]

@3DxJFD

It sounds like you want to swap one component for another. Select (or hover over) → Highlight → swap.

Yes, basically that

[tenquin]

@3DxJFD

What’s the ‘information’ to retrieve?

Position and size information: x, y, z, lenx, leny, lenz…