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Tight XYZ boundingbox

Tight XYZ boundingbox

Dear Development,

 

For programming a good boundingbox is needed sometimes. But according to this thread that's not possible with Inventor.

 

So with this code I think it should be possible to have an exact boundingbox:

 

boundingboxXmin = _Doc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes.AddByPlaneAndOffset(_Doc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes.Item(1), baseBody.RangeBox.MinPoint.X)
boundingboxXmax = _Doc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes.AddByPlaneAndOffset(_Doc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes.Item(1), baseBody.RangeBox.MaxPoint.X)
boundingboxYmin = _Doc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes.AddByPlaneAndOffset(_Doc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes.Item(2), baseBody.RangeBox.MinPoint.Y)
boundingboxYmax = _Doc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes.AddByPlaneAndOffset(_Doc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes.Item(2), baseBody.RangeBox.MaxPoint.Y)

And not something like this:

 

original.png

 

Regards,

David

 

 

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