Std SelBoundingBox

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Std SelBoundingBox

Menu location
View → Bounding box
Workbenches
All
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
0.19
See also
Std DrawStyle

Description

The Std SelBoundingBox command toggles the global bounding box highlighting mode. If this mode is switched on, selected objects are marked in a 3D view with a highlighted bounding box even if their ViewSelection Style is set to 'Shape'.

Usage

  1. Select the View → Bounding box option from the menu.

Scripting

See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

To change the ShowSelectionBoundingBox parameter use the SetBool method of the appropriate ParameterGrp.

import FreeCAD, FreeCADGui

grp = FreeCAD.ParamGet("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/View")
if grp.GetBool("ShowSelectionBoundingBox"):
    grp.SetBool("ShowSelectionBoundingBox", False)
else:
    grp.SetBool("ShowSelectionBoundingBox", True)

FreeCADGui.updateCommands()