Turn off or get rid of Bounding Boxes 3dsMax 2021

[sreinholdt]

I need help. I have read a ton of forms, watched videos, read blogs and I have not found an answer that works. I want to turn off or get rid if the bounding boxes around my groups and objects. The bounding boxes is getting to be to much and making it very hard to work. I'm using 3dsmax 2021.

• J is not the answers
• Turning off selection bracks in viewport settings is not the answer
• Hiding groups in the viewport is not the answer

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[mproductions.nl]

Same problem here... Heavy scene with allot of groups. and all the brackets make the scene really slow. There should be a option to turn this off right? it shouldn't be so difficult.

Hoping for a answer,,

Mike 

[mproductions.nl]

After some googling.. this script seems to work.. You can make a button of it. 

bounding boxes off
FOR theGroup in helpers WHERE isOpenGroupHead theGroup DO hide theGroup

Bounding boxes on

FOR theGroup in helpers WHERE isOpenGroupHead theGroup DO unhide theGroup

[oliver]

May I ask why you need dozens of groups to be open at the same time? Above that there are plenty of other methods to organize your objects (linking, layers, ...).

[sreinholdt]

I receive models from designers to render. They come grouped, with groups inside groups, inside groups; multiple parents with children. It is easiest to have the whole model open recursively so that I can quickly pull things apart and hide objects. 

If you have a better suggestion please explain in more detail.

[sreinholdt]

Can you explain in more detail or some steps on how to install the script, I haven't done such a thing before.

[oliver]

If you get the models delivered like that it may take you longer to re-organize everything than to hide that brackets, so I see your need for that.
I try to avoid groups inside groups (inside groups...) because it slows down every procedure I do - I like to organize my scenes on layers, so I can toggle their visibility or freeze them with one click. A group can also be substituted by parenting the objects to helper-objects (especially if animation is involved). If its not necessary to have all objects separated I collapse them to larger units. And of course I also use groups.
All these decisions are of course heavily influenced by the current situation, so groups inside groups are not automatically a bad idea. Inelegant maybe.

[sreinholdt]

The way things are set up works really well for me. It sounds a lot like what you have as a working space I can still turn on or off major groups to isolate areas that only need to be shown. I wouldn't want to dissect the model as that would be a lot of time wasted, the setup is already well done and important to the way things are grouped or put together. What bother's me is all the brackets showing, that's all I want is to be able to have a toggle that hides them when I don't need to see them.

[MirelaTT]

Up in the Group tab, selected Close group and the brackets disappeared. 

[abdulkadirdogan4474 · Accepted solution]

If you click Dummy(helpers), it will disappears group selection box.

[sreinholdt]

Thank you so much! Finally a great answer.