Working with the boundary box

[Helmi]

Hi,

as you know each and every object in sketchup has this boundary box around it which is by default drawn in blue (well at least here on my mac).

Is there any way to work with this boundary box instead of the objects borders? For examply i'd like to rotate this object around the center of the boundary (where those two red lines cross that i have drawn in there)

Also aligning an object like this which has no straight outer border is kind of hard - it would often be helpful if you could use this boundary box to align it somewhere.

I thought i'd ask - maybe there's a way to do this that i just missed so far...

Thanks for helping,

Frank

[Box]

If you use the move tool instead of the rotate tool you will see little crosses when you hover over a group, these crosses allow you to rotate the object around the very point you mark with your lines. Simply move to the cross you want, click and rotate.

[Helmi]

thanks for the hint - already seen that, but it looks like the rotation then is always world-aligned means i have to know how the rotation of the object is already to rotate it by - let's say - 180 deg.

Anyway thanks for the hint. solves at least a part of my problem.

[Dave R]

Thomthom has a plugin that will draw a box with the same size orientation as the bounding box.