[REQ] Group different color than Component

Dan Rathbun

Is this possible with some Ruby?

NO ... sorry.

Geom::BoundingBox class is a subclass of Object. Neither it, nor Object, have a color attribute.

Geom::BoundingBox is not like other Sketchup::Drawingelement subclasses that have a material attribute (that they inherit from their Sketchup::Drawingelement superclass.)

Currently the BoundingBox color is controlled globally via:
model.rendering_options['HighlightColor']

Any change would need to be made in the Sketchup C++ source.

In addition to Component and Group boundingbox color, there needs to be a normal object boundingbox (or highlight) color. (Such as when you click on a single Face or Edge.)

thomthom

Well, you could make a custom Tools that did highlight groups/components with different bounding boxes...

Dan Rathbun

@thomthom said:

Well, you could make a custom Tools that did highlight groups/components with different bounding boxes...

Naw... he wishes the boxes to be colored differently using ALL tools (especially the native tools.)

But wouldn't it be interesting if class ComponentDefinition had a @boundingboxcolor attribute ??

We wouldn't be limited to only a few colors (enitity, image, group, component, model.)

Components of different definitions could have different boundingbox colors!

Another idea... take a Group or Components boundingbox color from it's layer color!