Verify Reference Point ( Drawing Editor > v f )

Tool summary :

• Shows you the location of the reference point on your current drawing and (optionally) lets you move that reference point.
• Your current drawing can be a job standard detail or global standard detail or member detail or erection view or reference drawing or symbol or global symbol . See the warning .
• The reference point is used as the insertion point for standard details that are placed using Add Standard Detail , symbols that are placed using or Symbol Add , or for member details, standard details, erection views or reference drawings placed in Modeling using Add Reference Drawing or Reference Drawing Move .
• On drawings that do not have an extension dimension workpoint , it is used as the origin point that extension dimensions are measured from.
• See the step-by-step instructions . For symbols, be sure to heed this warning .

Also see :

VIDEO A reference drawing's insertion point is changed in the Drawing Editor by using Verify Reference Point . That reference drawing is then placed in Modeling using the new insertion point.

• Drawing Editor (where Verify Reference Point is a tool)
• Add Standard Detail ( Verify Reference Point affects)
• Save Reuse (another way to verify a reference point)
• Save As (another way to verify a reference point)
• Job standard detail ( Verify Reference Point applies to)
• Global standard detail ( Verify Reference Point applies to)
• Member detail ( Verify Reference Point applies to)
• Erection view ( Verify Reference Point applies to)
• Reference drawing ( Verify Reference Point applies to)
• Symbol ( Verify Reference Point applies to)
• Global symbol ( Verify Reference Point applies to)

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   Warning (for symbols) :

• If, in your current Job , you File > Verify Reference Point to change the insertion point of a symbol that has been placed into drawings in that Job, that symbol's reference point location will remain the same in those drawings, but the symbol itself will shift its location with respect to that reference point. To be precise, the symbol's location in all of those drawings will shift the exact scaled distance (but the opposite direction) that you moved the reference point.

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   Step-by-step instructions :

Begin this operation in the Drawing Editor while accessing a job standard detail or global standard detail or member detail or erection view or reference drawing or symbol or global symbol . If your current drawing is a member detail , you should Unshorten that drawing before performing this operation.

1 . Invoke Verify Reference Point using any one (1) of the following methods:

Method 1 : Click the Verify Reference Point icon. The icon can be taken from the group named ' File ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).

Method 2 : If " Drawing Editor layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose File > Verify Reference Point .

Method 3, 4 or 5 : Verify Reference Point can also be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the ' Lightning ' layout style, configuration of the interface is done using Customize Interface .

Method 6 : Invoke Save Reuse or Save As on a standard detail, then check the box for " Change reference point ."

2 . The status line prompts, "Verify the reference point?" A reference point symbol identifies the reference point's location on the drawing. Yes-No mouse bindings become active.

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reference point symbol

Alternative 1 : Left-click ( Yes ) if the reference point is where you want it, and you want to end this operation. Do not continue.

Alternative 2 : Right-click ( No ) to relocate the reference point. Go to step 3.

3 . Locate - Pan - Return mouse bindings become active along with various Locate options.

bindings

Alternative 1 : Select the Locate icon that you want (if it's not selected already), then place the mouse pointer ( ) so the point location target snaps to the on-screen location where you want the reference point moved to, then left-click ( Locate ). Follow the instructions in step 2.

Alternative 2 : Right-click ( Return ) to cancel this operation and keep everything as it was before step 1.

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