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  1. Click Tasks > Electrical.

  2. Select the electrical device, and then click Properties .

  3. Click the Configuration tab.

  4. Select Working from the Status list, and click OK.

  5. Click Insert > Control Point to display the Control Point Ribbon (Placement).

  6. Set Electrical Device as the parent object of the control point – the object on which you are placing the control point.

  7. Set the Subtype to Mechanical Equipment.

    • The available Types are Control Point, Key Point, and Insertion Point. Only Control Point has fixed software meaning for piping isometrics and WBS group creation when related to piping objects. You can configure the automatic dimensioning and labeling of orthographic drawings to use any type of control point. Your administrator will give you instruction for which types to use to drive automation of your custom drawing types.

    • You can use PinPoint to place the control point at a specific coordinate or at some specific offsets from a location on the parent object.

  8. Click to place the control point.

  • If you select the parent object before inserting a control point, the selected object is automatically assigned as the parent of the control point to be placed and the software prompts you to position the control point. This allows you to avoid a QuickPick that may display if there are many potential control point parent objects in the portion of the model you are working in. For example, you can select the specific connection you want to split an isometric drawing in before inserting a control point. If the object selected before starting the command is not a potential control point parent, the software prompts you to select the parent as in the workflow above.

  • After placing control points in a model, you can view them graphically by setting your view to show the Reference Aspect.

  • You can select the control point graphically when the reference aspect is displayed. If the control point is inside the volume of the object or difficult to graphically select, you can select it in the Workspace Explorer. First, select the parent object of the control point. The Workspace Explorer automatically scrolls so you can see the selected object. The control point is nested under its parent object in the Workspace Explorer. You can then easily see and pick the control point from the Workspace Explorer rather than graphically.

  • You can see the control points related to an object by looking at the Relationships tab of the object's Properties dialog box.

  • You can change the size of the control point sphere by changing the Diameter.

  • When Associativity is set to True, the control point moves when you move the parent object. You cannot move the control point relative to the parent object. When set to False, the control point does not move when you move the parent object. You can also select and move the control point relative to the parent object. Once you toggle the associativity of the control point to False, you cannot toggle it back to True.