I’d like to add my own two cents to this. I think the orientation of the bounding box should be (able to be) axis-aligned with the X and Y axes. Or allow us to pick either the source image or the mask as the orientation for the bounding box.
I’m currently running into issues where I have design files where there are bitmap images rotated in the file, and a rectangle marking the frame of the page. I’m trying to align the page and I know exactly which coordinates the bottom-left corner needs to be in with jigs in my laser, but if I crop image to remove the portion of the bitmap out of bounds I get a rotated box that I can no longer use to align my pieces on the workspace.
I suppose an alternative question would be is there any way for me to move everything together as a group, but based on the provided shape’s bottom-left corner rather than the frame of the entire group? It’s quickly getting old having to choose between fixing it in another program and writing down offsets for the group relative to the shape so I know to position at 97.871 instead of 125.000
I, like many others are visual learners. Can you please provide some images of what you’re tring to achieve and what you’re currently getting? I looked at the thread you linked to, but am still unsure of what your trying to achieve.
I need to position the bottom left corner of the black rectangle at (150.000, 25.000) in this case because that’s where I’ve set my jig.
If I Apply Mask to Image the picture is contained within the frame but the selection of the entire group doesn’t have the same bottom-left coordinate as the black rectangle, making it so I have to track offsets and see that, in this case, I need to offset by (-17.397, -6.207) when selecting the group to position the black rectangle where I want.
So what I would like to be able to do is position everything together based on the bottom-left corner of that black rectangle, or have the cropped image bounding box fit within the black rectangle.
I see what you’re trying to do now. I tried several different things and the only thing that worked to get the results you want was to trace the image, delete the original and use the boolean tools to subtract the unwanted area. The origin then connected to the rectangle. I reaqlize this is not the desired workflow, but it may be a vaible workaround.
This is a lousy trace because I just copied your image.
