Oriented boundingbox with instance axes

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Hello everyone and best wishes for the New Year.

I have a component instance selected and wanted to get the coordinates of its boundingbox.
The axes of the instance are not the same as the axes of the model. Sketchup correctly displays a boundingbox oriented on the axes of the instance and not on the axes of the model.
But in ruby I get the coordinates of a boundinbox but oriented on the axes of the model and not on the axes of the instance.
How to get an instance axis oriented boundingbox via API
Thanks in advance.

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You need to get the instances’s definition bounding box. Given a variable “comp_inst” that references the desired instance:

local_bbox = comp_inst.definition.bounds

Now the API for a ComponentDefinition object doesn’t include a bounds method, but it inherits it from the Drawingelement class.

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Thank you Bruce
It’s work nice!
I was far away to imagine that the solute will be via definition
Have a nice day