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8.1

<node3d>.getBoundingBox

Returns bounding box

<node3d>.getBoundingBox(  
mode = viz.ABS_PARENT  
node = ''  
)  
mode = viz.ABS_PARENT
One of the following transform modes:

Transform modes

viz.ABS_PARENT
viz.REL_PARENT

Return the bounding box in the parents coordinate system.

viz.ABS_GLOBAL
viz.REL_GLOBAL

Return the bounding box in global coordinates.

viz.ABS_LOCAL
viz.REL_LOCAL

Return the bounding box in the objects local coordinate system.

node = ''
Name of subchild to retrive bounding box of

Remarks

This command will return an axis aligned BoundingBox object of the node.

Return Value

A BoundingBox object with the following properties:

<BoundingBox>.size = The dimensions of the bounding box
<BoundingBox>.width = The width of the bounding box (size along x axis)
<BoundingBox>.height = The height of the bounding box (size along y axis)
<BoundingBox>.depth = The depth of the bounding box (size along z axis)
<BoundingBox>.center = The center point of the bounding box
<BoundingBox>.xmin
<BoundingBox>.xmax
<BoundingBox>.ymin
<BoundingBox>.ymax
<BoundingBox>.zmin
<BoundingBox>.zmax

Example

ball = viz.add('ball.wrl')
box = ball.getBoundingBox()
boxSize = box.size

See also

<node3d>.getBoundingSphere