From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Utilities and Properties
ID Point (ID) - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Utilities and Properties
ID Point (ID)
- [Instructor] So we've got our drawing open, 00 GROUND 1031 South East Madison.dwg and we're looking at the utilities panel in the AutoCAD ribbon. The first command that we're going to take a look at is the ID points command. It's this one, you can see it there, like so. And what we're going to do is utilize this to find co-ordinate values in our AutoCAD drawings. So what I'm going to do I'm going to pan up a little bit in the drawing. I'm going to zoom in on this bottom corner here. Now you can see we've got an intersection of the grids. We've also got a corner of the building. Now make sure that your object snaps are on for the ID point command to work. So my object snaps there are switched on they're blue on the status bar. Now you can just click on the ID point command here like so, and it will prompt you now to specify a point. So if I come to the corner of my building I'll get an end point snap. A left click, and that value appears. There's the X and Y values next to the cross there because I've got dynamic input switched on and it see there the Z value is obviously zero because we're in a flat 2D drawing. Now, if I just hit escape to cancel that I lose those values but they have appeared on the command line. Now in newer versions of AutoCAD as you see the command blind information kind of fades away a bit like the credits at the end of a movie. But the trick is, just click on this arrow here and there's all the information there. The X value, the Y value, the Z value. So I can highlight those if I need to take those coordinate values and I can right click and I can copy them I can paste them I can paste them to the command line if I need to and so on. So there's all that information available on the command line using the ID point command. Now I did mention in the previous video about that old fashioned way of typing things. Now I love dynamic input in AutoCAD. It's one of my favorite things in AutoCAD of all time. So if I just type ID like that, you'll notice the icon on the suggestion menu there next to the cross there is the same icon as ID point up there on the utilities panel. I'll just press enter after typing ID, specify a point. Let's go back to the same point again. And there's the coordinates again, like so. Now you'll notice as I move away, they do disappear but they're down here on the command line if I need them. And you'll see, they're exactly the same as well. Can you see the values are the same there because I've selected the same points. So obviously from that perspective you've got the same values because we're obviously at the same coordinates. But the ID point command is fantastic if you just quickly want to check a coordinate of something a setting out point, especially for a floor plan for a building like this. If you're building this building you're going to need to know the coordinates of the corner of the building. Better still, you might need the coordinates where the grid lines intersect. So we just do ID point. We use that intersection snap there click and there's the values of that there. And again, as I move away they do disappear, but they're available as I mentioned on the command line, quick and easy. So the whole idea of ID point is it literally IDs that particular coordinate point in your AutoCAD drawings.
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