I've mostly ported this package to ROS2

[schornakj]

I was able to get this plugin mostly working in ROS2 in this branch: https://github.com/schornakj/rviz_tool_cursor/tree/feature/ros2-port. It's a little buggy still (in particular the orientation calculation doesn't always work correctly) but it's serviceable!

One complication is that I had to make some tweaks in RViz2 to allow getting surface point patches from OGRE, so my branch depends on this still-WIP PR against RViz: ros2/rviz#657

[marip8]

If you're still interested in a ROS2 version of this tool, you might check out this similar ROS2 tool. It doesn't have the tool mesh animation capability (yet), but it does have a lot of other selection area related capabilities