Box

Creates a solid box from a base rectangle and a height or from diagonal corners.

Steps:

After drawing the base rectangle

Options

Note: The base rectangle determines both the size and location of the box. The options for the base rectangle are the same as for the Rectangle command.

Default (Corners/Height)

3Point

Vertical

Center

Diagonal

Draws the box from two diagonal corners. No option for side length is offered.

  1. Pick the first corner.

  2. Pick the second corner.

  3. Pick the height.

Cube

Uses the specified diagonal to define the height.

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Box > Box: Corner to Corner, Height

Solid > Box: Corner to Corner, Height

Main1 > Box: Corner to Corner, Height

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Solid > Box > Corner to Corner, Height

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MeshBox

Creates a polygon mesh box from a base rectangle and a height or from diagonal corners.

Options

The mesh version has additional options for the number of mesh faces

XFaces/YFaces/ZFaces

The number of faces in the x, y, and z-directions.

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Mesh > Mesh Box

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Mesh > Polygon Mesh Primitives > Box

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BoundingBox

Creates a rectilinear bounding box object (polyline or polysurfaces) that encloses the objects.

Steps:

If the objects are contained in a plane parallel to a coordinate system plane, the bounding box is a rectangular polyline.

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Otherwise, a polysurface box is created.

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The extreme corners of the bounding box object are reported at the command line in the chosen coordinate system.

Options

CPlane

Bases the object creation on construction plane coordinates.

World

Bases the object creation on world coordinates.

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Box > Bounding Box

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Analyze > Bounding Box

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