Drawing points

The contextual edit bar

During drawing and when selected.

For help on snapping, see Snapping objects.

Starts the Detect Relations Manager.

Offset Dx and Dy (Appear only when you are repositioning a point.)

Attributes

The point's absolute coordinates on the coordinates axes. Appear in the Data column of the Objects tab (see the tabular representation below.
Style. For more about styles, see Formatting styles, colors, and templates.
Relative Dx. Appears on the contextual edit bar when you are dragging a point. Indicates the relative horizontal offset distance between a point's original position and its new position as projected on the x-axis. The Dx value is the Ox coordinate value of the point's new position less the Ox coordinate value of the point's original position.
Relative Dy. Appears on the contextual edit bar when you are dragging a point. Indicates the relative vertical offset distance between a point's original position and its new position as projected on the y-axis. The Dy value is the Oy coordinate value of the point's new position less the Oy coordinate value of the point's original position.
Id. An automatically generated object identifier. Appears in the Id column in the tabular area. Read-only.

Control points

A point is its own control point. During drawing, the following pointer appears:

About to draw a point.

Tabular presentation

When you have drawn a point, its object type, Id number, absolute coordinates along the x- and y-axes, and style appear in the Objects tab in the tabular pane. The value in the Length column is always 0.00.

The data in the Layers & Objects tab is unavailable for direct editing.

To draw a point

Do one of the following:

In the Objects toolbar, click Point .
On the Objects menu, click Point.
Press CTRL+D+P.

(Optional) Snap the point to another object or point. When you are drawing points, you can use only point-focused snapping.
In the graphical area, click where you want the point to be.

To reposition a point

Select the point.
Do any of the following:

Drag the point to where you want it to be.
In the contextual edit bar, in Dx and Dy, enter offset distances relative to the point's original location, and then press ENTER.

NOTE: When during repositioning a point you enter a value in an edit box in the contextual edit bar and move to the next, the preview of the point is limited according to the specified value. Consider the following example:

If while repositioning a point by dragging you enter a value of 40 mm for relative Dx offset distance, and then you press TAB to move to the Dy edit box, when you point to the new location of the point, you cannot move the mouse pointer beyond the imaginary vertical line that stretches at 40 mm rightward from the original point. To use the point preview freely, in the respective edit box (Dx or Dy), enter 0.00, and then press TAB or ENTER.

The zero-value feature can be applied only for distance values, not for angles, circle diameters, arc radii, or radii of auxiliary circles inscribing or circumscribing regular polygons. It applies for all contextual edit bars in which relative Dx and Dy values are set.