Hi Everyone,
Is there a way to access the bounding box (coordinates) of the component shown typically in green at the 3D viewer?
thanks
Bounding Box surrounds the full part.
Footprints are generated by many folks/companies and it’s up to the creator to determine where it’s origin 0,0 is located.
There are two useful Reports (File>Fabrication-Outputs>Footprint Report and Component) containing their location and dim’s.
The location is for their 0,0 relative to the Page Origin at Top-Left (or, relative to selection in the output panel).
When clicking the Footprint, thin red-lines show relationship…
As far as I know, there isn’t a dimension showing lower/upper… corners of the Box.
You can read the Info at the Window’s bottom and use the Measuring Tool’s and add Dimension’s
Thanks for the answer.
I have checked the reports, but those are only 2D coordinates. I am actually looking for the 3D bounding box, I mean the one is in green for each component. So there should be at least 8 points, x,y,z in the 3D viewer.
I am wondering if I can access that data,
the reports have dimensions but is not standarized data.
I see, I forgot about ‘Z’.
No, there is no info about Z. If you have the Model or STEP file (or STL/other) you can get the info using FreeCAD/other…
Also, I forgot you can grab the same data I showed by turning on the “Show Properties Mgr”.
Perhaps not very useful if you use s CAD tool but, you can use OpenStepViewer (probably others) to get the approx data… (screenshot) I left the default units at Meters…
I use FreeCAD but show using OpenStepViewer. I exported STEP of PCB from Kicad and loaded it into OpenStep
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