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I would like to know how to display a Bounding Box around my objects in Blender, much like the Bounding Box from Maya 3D. All I want to be able to do is determine the outer edges of an object.
I've looked everywhere in the interface, but cannot see how to turn that on.
Assuming you just want to display a bounding box around or instead of each object, you can do this with Draw types.
You could set Viewport shading to Bounding box to draw the bounds of each object:
A comparison between Solid and Bounding box:
To do this for one object only, you can set this in Properties > Object Display > Maximum draw type:
This can be done by enabling Bounds with the Maximum draw type still higher than Bounds:
This looks like this:
You could do this for many objects by:
Select the objects for which you want to enable Bounding box
Enable Bounds in Object > Display
Right click on the Bounds option and select Copy to selected:
@Gandalf3 answer still applies, this is just update for Blender 2.9+.
In Blender 2.9+, to display an object's bounding box, you have to select it (in viewport or through the outliner) and then go to Object Properties Tab > Viewport Display.
There you'll find the option Display As with Textured option selected by default. To display the bounding box, you just have to pick the Bounds option, as seen in the picture bellow.
You can display both the object and its bounding box. You can achieve this by selecting Textured option and enable Bounds checkbox.
