diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
index 8372ea1907..34404ac3e7 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ pub fn anchor(app: &SolveApp, d: &Dialog) -> Option<(Vec3, Option<Vec3>)> {
             (ss.plane.to_world(ss.sketch.point(ss.sketch.resolve_point(point)?)?), None)
         }
         Sel::Body { name } => (st.body(name)?.mesh().bounds().center(), None),
+        // A feature picked as a whole (a pattern or mirror of features): the middle of what it
+        // made, as a body sits at the middle of its box.
+        Sel::Feature { id } => (crate::viewport::feature_bounds(app, *id)?.center(), None),
         Sel::Plane { name } => {
             let pl = solidcraft_engine::geom::Plane::named(name).or_else(|| {
                 solidcraft_engine::view::construction_planes(&app.session).into_iter().find(|(_, n, _)| n == name).map(|(_, _, pl)| pl)
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/pattern_arrow_tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/pattern_arrow_tests.rs
index 68d7a11ee2..135823a0db 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/pattern_arrow_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/pattern_arrow_tests.rs
@@ -87,3 +87,32 @@ fn a_solid_pattern_shows_the_second_arrow_once_it_has_a_second_direction() {
     assert_eq!(after, spacing);
     assert_ne!(after2, spacing2);
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn a_pattern_of_features_puts_its_arrow_on_the_patterned_feature() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new();
+    h.run(&json!([
+        {"call": "engine.execute", "params": {"command": "solid.box", "params": {"corner": [0, 0, 0], "length": 60, "width": 20, "height": 5, "name": "Plate"}}},
+        {"call": "engine.execute", "params": {"command": "solid.box", "params": {"corner": [8, 6, 5], "length": 8, "width": 8, "height": 6, "operation": "join", "name": "Boss"}}},
+        {"call": "engine.execute", "params": {"command": "solid.pattern.rectangular", "params": {"features": ["Boss"], "dir1": [1, 0, 0], "count1": 2, "spacing1": 20, "name": "Pattern"}}},
+        {"call": "ui.view", "params": {"view": "iso"}},
+        {"call": "ui.editFeature", "params": {"feature": "Pattern"}}
+    ]))
+    .unwrap();
+    h.settle();
+    let d = h.app.dialog.as_ref().expect("the pattern dialog");
+    assert!(matches!(d.inputs.first().and_then(|i| i.items.first()), Some(solidcraft_engine::Sel::Feature { .. })), "{:?}", d.inputs);
+    // The arrow starts at the middle of the boss and points along X, the pattern's direction.
+    let (base, dir) = crate::canvas::anchor(&h.app, d).expect("the pattern has an anchor");
+    assert!(base.dist(solidcraft_engine::geom::Vec3::new(12.0, 10.0, 8.0)) < 1e-6, "{base:?}");
+    assert!(dir.is_some_and(|v| v.dist(solidcraft_engine::geom::Vec3::new(1.0, 0.0, 0.0)) < 1e-9), "{dir:?}");
+    let Some(tip) = handle_at("arrow") else { panic!("no arrow on a pattern of features") };
+    let from = h.call("ui.worldToScreen", json!({"points": [[12, 10, 8], [32, 10, 8]]}))["result"].clone();
+    let at = |i: usize| egui::pos2(from[i][0].as_f64().unwrap() as f32, from[i][1].as_f64().unwrap() as f32);
+    let (b, x) = (at(0), at(1));
+    // The tip lies off the base, on the screen line of the boss's +X direction.
+    let (ux, uy) = (x.x - b.x, x.y - b.y);
+    let (vx, vy) = (tip.x - b.x, tip.y - b.y);
+    assert!(vx * ux + vy * uy > 0.0, "tip {tip:?} base {b:?}");
+    assert!((vx * uy - vy * ux).abs() / (ux * ux + uy * uy).sqrt() < 3.0, "tip {tip:?} off the X line through {b:?}");
+}
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/viewport.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/viewport.rs
index e7ccdaf4e6..d24c4abbb6 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/viewport.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/viewport.rs
@@ -1801,6 +1801,12 @@ pub fn section_hatch(app: &SolveApp) -> bool {
 /// Do not expand these faces into surface patches: neighbouring faces can belong to another
 /// feature even when they share a surface.
 fn feature_geometry(app: &SolveApp, id: u64) -> Vec<Sel> {
+    feature_parts(app, id, true)
+}
+
+/// A feature's geometry as [`feature_geometry`] finds it; `shown_only` leaves out hidden bodies
+/// and bodies a dialog's preview stands in for.
+fn feature_parts(app: &SolveApp, id: u64, shown_only: bool) -> Vec<Sel> {
     if !app.session.model.result(id).is_some_and(|r| !r.skipped && r.error.is_none()) {
         return Vec::new();
     }
@@ -1808,7 +1814,7 @@ fn feature_geometry(app: &SolveApp, id: u64) -> Vec<Sel> {
     let prefix = format!("F{id}:");
     let mut out = Vec::new();
     for b in &st.bodies {
-        if !app.session.body_visible(&b.name) || app.preview.effective_replaced().contains(&b.name) {
+        if shown_only && (!app.session.body_visible(&b.name) || app.preview.effective_replaced().contains(&b.name)) {
             continue;
         }
         if b.feature == id {
@@ -1849,9 +1855,20 @@ fn displayed_selection(app: &SolveApp, item: &Sel) -> Vec<Sel> {
 /// The box around what is selected (bodies, faces, edges, vertices, sketch curves and the
 /// bodies of selected features), where it is shown.
 pub fn selection_bounds(app: &SolveApp) -> Option<solidcraft_engine::geom::Aabb3> {
+    bounds_of(app, app.session.selection.iter().flat_map(|item| displayed_selection(app, item)))
+}
+
+/// The box around the geometry a feature made (its bodies, or its faces on bodies later features
+/// changed), also where a dialog's preview stands in for it: a pattern of the feature previews
+/// the body the feature is on. None when the feature made nothing.
+pub(crate) fn feature_bounds(app: &SolveApp, id: u64) -> Option<solidcraft_engine::geom::Aabb3> {
+    bounds_of(app, feature_parts(app, id, false).into_iter())
+}
+
+fn bounds_of(app: &SolveApp, items: impl Iterator<Item = Sel>) -> Option<solidcraft_engine::geom::Aabb3> {
     let st = crate::open_meshing::shown_world(app);
     let mut b = solidcraft_engine::geom::Aabb3::EMPTY;
-    for s in app.session.selection.iter().flat_map(|item| displayed_selection(app, item)) {
+    for s in items {
         match &s {
             Sel::Body { name } => {
                 if let Some(x) = st.body(name) {