So I now have a collection of window and door groups nested within my main wall group (wall assembly). As the user mouses over the various windows or doors I will have the tool determine if the point is within the bounding box of the window or door group and then base its selection on that criteria…

I thought Thomthom did something like this. Check his TTLib2 code. (Might be at BitBucket)

ADD: A quick search on “hilight bounds” of this category finds the link … [image] Align axes with a face and reset axes Ruby API Yes, the Geom::BoundingBox class does not represent the selection bounds in the viewport. If you want to obtain the 3d points for that you can …

After giving it some additional thought it probably isn’t worth the trouble but it does lead me to another question. Up until now when utilizing the draw method within a tool for preview purposes I’ve only ever drawn lines or dashed lines. Is there a way to draw a face?

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