Lines

Point Import Wizard also allows you to import the same set of points multiple times, to any sketch (new or existing), or to any design plane. In the case of design planes, Point Import Wizard will create a new sketch based on the plane you select, as you say in the example above.

For this example, we'll use the same set of points we entered above, and add them as connected lines to Sketch<1>, which we created above. We'll also cause the lines to be scaled to inches. Select Sketch<1> in the Sketch or Plane box, select Inches (in) from the Units drop-down box, select Lines in the Import Points As section. Leave the same points you entered above in the Points to Add section, and click Import.

If you get an error message at this point, if may mean that Sketch<1> is activated in an Alibre Design session. When you're working with an activated sketch, Alibre Design essentially "locks" the sketch so that other application cannot access it. Just be sure the sketch is not activated (see the illustration below) and click Import to try again. (Point Import Wizard tries to catch lots of errors like this so that it doesn't just crash when it encounters something unexpected.)

Next, you should see the "Import successful" dialog with information about the lines you just imported. In this case there were four lines described by five points.

Switch back to Alibre Design, and you'll see the lines you added. Note that the points that define the lines are scaled larger than the original points. This is because for this example we assumed the points were in inch units as opposed to centimeters.

You can have Point Import Wizard connect the start point to the end point by simply adding the start point again to the end of the point list.