KOMPAS-3D v23

Point plotting commands are available when working with various objects and various operations. For example:

•sketch location,

•3D curves (Broken Line, Circular Arc and others),

•surfaces (Surface by point grid, Surface by point layer),

•auxiliary objects (control point, Axis through point in direction, The plane tangent to a face at a point, LCS, etc.),

•zones and sections in the model,

•insertion and placement of components,

•scaling,

•designations (Centerline, Caption).

Plotting a Point

Step-by-step instructions

1.Click the Build point  button on the Parameter Panel. This will start a point plotting sub-process, and the containing Point by coordinates.
The Parameter Panel header displays buttons to run other point plotting commands.

2.Run the required command (or continue plotting by coordinates), set the required parameters: enter values and/or select objects.

3.Click the Create Object  button.

The system goes back to the plotting process of an object for which a point was created.

Result of Point Plotting

The result of point plotting during execution of another command could be:

•Separate object Point.
This point is displayed in the Build tree and edited in a usual way. You can create such buttons, for example, in the Scaling command.

•Construction object Point.
This point is not displayed in the Build tree. It is stored within the object for which it was created and can be edited only when this object is being edited (see below). You can create such buttons, for example, in arc building commands.

•Absence of object Point.
The point building process is only used to clarify the current position of the object. You can build such point, for example, when placing a component in the model.

Editing point built during object creation

Step-by-step instructions

1.Enter the object editing mode.

2.Activate the registration of the point to be edited (when working with certain objects, you can also select the required point of the object in the graphic area; for example, when editing an arc constructed by three points, you can select one of its points).

3.Edit the point. The following options are possible:

•Change parameters of the current point building method or change the building method. To do this, click the Build Point  button on the Parameter Panel.

•Cancel point plotting (and, consequently, associativity with objects that was used during its plotting). To do this, click "x" icon in the Snap Point field.
Note that such objects as a segment, arc, broken line do not change: a point simply turns into an arbitrarily defined point. Whereas other objects, for example, a control or attachment point, must be associated with the existing objects, therefore, after canceling point plotting you must plot a new point or specify an existing point object.

4.Finish editing the object.