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Checking Out Points

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Intermediate

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. For more information, see Copying Project Points into a Drawing.

Tutorial Exercise: Checking Out and Modifying Project Points

To check out 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.

Toolspace Context Menu

Prospector tab (Master View): Projects collection project Points collection right-click selected points in list view Check Out

OR

Prospector tab: Open Drawings collection Point Groups collection right-click <point group> Check Out Points

Dialog Box


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