Moving the cursor over a p-point (with the left-hand mouse button still depressed) will cause the p-point identifier to be displayed in the Status Form; also, the appearance of the cursor will change.

Selecting a p-point is achieved by releasing the mouse button with the cursor over the required point. The identifier, direction and position of the point will appear in the DRAW Command Input & Output form and the p-point display markers will disappear.

Releasing the left-hand mouse button without selecting a p-point will leave the current set of p-points visible; you will be able to zoom or pan the view, or quit out of the command line by clicking on Cancel on the Status Form.

In the latter case, identifying a length of implied tube will cause only the Branches Head and Tail p-points to be made visible. Lines generated by a section plane (refer to Section Planes for further information) are assigned to the significant element and not to the primitive sectioned; picking on one of these lines will cause all the p-points of the significant element to be made visible - even when in ‘Design primitives’ mode. P-points that lie outside the view rectangle will not be shown.