To Check Out Project Points

You can use the Check Out command to prevent others from making changes to project points while you are editing them.

To edit a project point, check it out to a drawing, edit it in the drawing, and then check it back into the project.

Note: When working with project points, the term local copy refers to the copy of the point in your drawing.

Checking out a project point creates a local copy of the point in the drawing. The Check Out command gives you exclusive access to the project point; no one else can check it out while you are working on it.

If the Check Out command is not available, you can use the Get From Project command to a read-only local copy of the point.

Tutorial Exercise: Checking Out and Modifying Project Points

1. Verify that the drawing you want to bring the points into is the active drawing. If it is not, right-click the drawing name in the Open Drawings collection in the Prospector tree and click Switch To.
2. In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, expand the Projects collection and then expand the project that contains the points you want to check out.
3. Click the project Points collection to display a list view.
4. In the list view, select the project points you want to check out, right-click, and click Check Out.
5. In the Check Out dialog box, click OK.

   Local copies of the points are created in the active drawing.

Checking In Points

You can use the Check In command to check in checked-out project points.

Note: When working with project points, the term local copy refers to the copy of the point in your drawing.

After you edit one or more project points, use the Check In command to replace the existing project point with your local copy of the project point, and increase the project point’s version number.

The Check In command always updates the project point from the drawing that the point was checked out to.

Tutorial Exercise: Checking In Project Points