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I'm new in using CAD and I have a question What's a DefPoint, What's their purpose/ importance?
defpoints is a layer that doesn't plot. anything you put on it won't plot, it's a holdover from earlier versions. now you can set any layer not to plot, but that's a much newer feature that defpoints is. i'm not sure why they chose to call it defpoints, but I assume that means definition points. At a firm I used to work for, we used to put special points on that layer that were inside symbols we used to snap to.
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Scott Cook
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