Tutorial Post 5: Constructive Points.

Tutorial Post 5: Constructive Points.

Constructive points are used to denote positions in the model space. They are used mainly as the parameters of constructive methods. Constructive points sub-menu is invoked by pressing sequence of keys 'QP'.

You have the options to:

• set a point in current cursor's position'
• find a constructive point with a cursor by its name and show its label
• hide all the labels of constructive points

Constructive points are named with single letters: 'A' ... 'Z'.

In this example we select some endpoints and set two constructive points 'A' and 'B':

Then we execute a constructive method that moves the selected endpoints by the vector 'AB':

Note that the labels of constructive points are displayed as black letters on white rectangles with the lower left corner of the rectangle in the position of the constructive point. The labels are always facing the observer: