Adding Points to a Model

Adding Points Graphically

• Choose Points from the Edit | Current Type list.

• Execute Edit | Add Objects to enable the Add Points operation.

• Move the mouse pointer into a desired position in a View and click to add a Point.

• Execute Edit | Add Objects again to terminate the Add Points operation.

Each new Point is added to the structure model and to the Points spreadsheet as a selected Point.

WARNING:  When the Add Objects operation is enabled, each click of the mouse will add a new Point to the structure model.

Adding Points to the Points Spreadsheet

• Place the mouse pointer in the X Coord, Y Coord or Z Coord column in the last row of the Points spreadsheet.

• Press the Down Arrow key on the keyboard to add a new Point;

The coordinates of the previous row are copied into the new row when a new Point is added to the spreadsheet.

• The coordinate in the selected cell is incremented by the difference between the previous two coordinates in its column, or by ”1” if there is no difference.