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POINT

Just thought I'd point this out....

POINT. My point being, do not draw with points. Many people with little or no training in AutoCAD^® think that they are being clever by using a POINT to draw a "point". However, a POINT's appearance can be more than just a "dot". Points "locked" into a block is a different matter. Note that POINT size is controlled by the variable PDSIZE.

No, it is much safer to just draw a really short line and make a block out of it. Ideally, draw a line say, 0.00000001 mm long, scale it by 0.001., and create a block out of it. This scaling it so small is to ensure that no reasonable degree of scaling up will it be big enough to plot as a line. Remember to set the colour of the LINE to BYBLOCK. Use MIDPOINT for the insertion point of the BLOCK. This will plot as a dot no matter what PDMODE is set to. PDMODE determines the appearance (e.g. line, circle, cross etc.) that points will display as.