Point¶

The POINT entity (DXF Reference) represents a dimensionless point in WCS.

The POINT styling is a global setting, stored as header variable $PDMODE, this also means all POINT entities in a DXF document have the same styling:

0	center dot (.)
1	none ( )
2	cross (+)
3	x-cross (x)
4	tick (‘)

Combined with these bit values

32	circle
64	Square

e.g. circle + square + center dot = 32 + 64 + 0 = 96

The size of the points is defined by the header variable $PDSIZE:

0	5% of draw area height
<0	Specifies a percentage of the viewport size
>0	Specifies an absolute size

See also

Tutorial for Simple DXF Entities, section Point

Subclass of	`ezdxf.entities.DXFGraphic`
DXF type	`'POINT'`
Factory function	`ezdxf.layouts.BaseLayout.add_point()`
Inherited DXF attributes	Common graphical DXF attributes

Warning

Do not instantiate entity classes by yourself - always use the provided factory functions!

class ezdxf.entities.Point¶

dxf.location¶: Location of the point (2D/3D Point in WCS)

dxf.angle¶: Angle in degrees of the x-axis for the UCS in effect when POINT was drawn (float); used when PDMODE is nonzero.

transform(m: Matrix44) → Point¶: Transform the POINT entity by transformation matrix m inplace.

translate(dx: float, dy: float, dz: float) → Point¶: Optimized POINT translation about dx in x-axis, dy in y-axis and dz in z-axis.

virtual_entities(pdsize: float = 1, pdmode: int = 0) → Iterator[DXFGraphic]¶

Yields the graphical representation of POINT as virtual DXF primitives (LINE and CIRCLE). The dimensionless point is rendered as zero-length line!

Check for this condition:

e.dxftype() == 'LINE' and e.dxf.start.isclose(e.dxf.end)

if the rendering engine can’t handle zero-length lines.

Parameters:

pdsize – point size in drawing units
pdmode – point styling mode