Exercise 2: Create a Point Of Interest

Draw attention to an aspect of your proposal.

Insert a Point Of Interest (POI) at the ending point of the road, to draw attention to that area. A POI can include a tooltip with text, graphics, and hyperlinks. You can also set the proximity distance--how close the viewer must be to see the tooltip. This distance uses the Unit Of Measure for the POI.

Note: Click Unit Configuration to change Unit of Measurement for you model.

To create a Point Of Interest

1. Double-click to zoom into the ending point of the road.
2. Sketch the Point Of Interest.
   • Click
   • Click to select the desired POI style from the draw style catalog that appears, then close the catalog.
   • Double-click the location for the Point Of Interest.
   • Press Escape to exit creation mode. The POI is automatically selected
   • Drag the elevation gizmo up to enlarge the POI.
3. Add a tooltip to the Point Of Interest.
   • Select the POI and click .
   • For the Proximity Distance value, specify the distance at which the tooltip becomes visible.
   • Click in the cell for the Tooltip value and click the browse button that appears.
   • Enter the text for the tooltip.

     For tips on entering formatted text, images, and hyperlinks, see To create a tooltip for the selected point of interest and Create Tooltips.

   • Click Preview to see what the tooltip will look like.

     Click the Return to Editor button on the preview to dismiss it.

   • Click OK in the Edit Tooltip dialog box, and then click Update in the Properties Palette.
4. View the tooltip.
   • Close the Properties palette.
   • Press Escape to deselect the Point Of Interest.
   • Hover over the Point Of Interest to see the tooltip.