@mdhelmi84 said: how to make dotted-line bounding box bigger than usual? the idea is to highlight the selected component by using edit group feature..without dotted-line bounding box being seen somebody said use ruby console but dont know how to use it If you are the same person who asked in Google SketchUp Help Forum (see: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=5bab09c14b74fa86&hl=en ) that hint I made about using the ruby console is purely speculation. I don't know (as mentioned) if such a command line is possible at all. One of the ruby scripters here might know. What I ment was to (if possible) disable displaying the bounding box by code. It would be like disabling the screen texts Top / Front / etc. for standard views. See/open SU's menu Window > Ruby Console and copy next sentence: Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options["ShowViewName"] = false in the console and [Enter] From now on Top etc. isn't shown on screen. (paste: Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options["ShowViewName"] = true to enable again.) Once again, there might exist something similar for the bounding box. Although I'm far from sure about it. The purely SketchUp solution with fog is a (not so elegant) workaround.