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Bounding Box Reset is grayed out : (

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October 24, 2019
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Hi - I am working with some objects in IA, and I want to reset the bounding box(es). When I click on Transform, the Reset Bounding Box option is grayed out : (

Help, please!

DC

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

You cannot reset bounding boxes for shapes like rectangles, ellipses, polygons and lines.

You need to expand the shape: Object > Shape > Expand Shape, to reset the bounding box.

abstrakt*

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Pathfinder>Unite automatically resets bounding box

Cheers.

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Nurul Iva5ECF

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hello, can some one help me with this the above image? I cant transform the scale. Tried with reset bounding box and expand shape but nothing happen. 😞

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

View > Show Bounding Box?

chanaart

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It will be there if you made changes and created and different angles. For rectangle you need to expand . In this example it is a line.

Will be helpuful to give us screenshots!!

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evanm74683038

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I used to be able to reset the bounding box on every kind of object. Why would Adobe remove this functionality? I don't want to be forced to expand my strokes just to reset their bounding box. I shouldn't have to do that when I never had to before. Very annoying when Adobe continues to break things that were working fine before 😠

Ton Frederiks

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If it is a shape you need to Object > Shape > Expand Shape to reset the bounding box.

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tylonium

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I was working with a rotated and stretched out hexagon and 'Expand' still didn't let me reset the bounding box. When I went to 'Object' ===> Compound Path' ===> 'Make' the bounding box reset immediately and when I checked the 'Reset Bounding Box' was no longer greyed out in the menu.

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ANDREI15A8

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This worked for me! Thanks!

Aaron Ncz

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Thank you thank you!

Ton Frederiks

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You cannot reset bounding boxes for shapes like rectangles, ellipses, polygons and lines.

You need to expand the shape: Object > Shape > Expand Shape, to reset the bounding box.

danac16722522Author

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Yay, Ton! It worked, you are a genius. Thanks a million!

Ton Frederiks

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Glad to hear that helped.

Monika Gause

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What kinds of objects?

danac16722522Author

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Polygons (6 sided), squares. I can SEE the bounding boxes, and I can make them go away/return. But when I go to Transform, the Reset Bounding Box option is grayed out.

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