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Quick Reference
Commands
ACTRECORD
Starts the Action Recorder.
ACTUSERINPUT
Inserts a user message into an action macro.
RIBBON
Opens the ribbon window.
Work with Coordinates
You can use absolute or relative coordinates for acquired points in an action
macro.
As you record an action macro, recorded coordinate values can be represented
as absolute or relative. While a coordinate value can be absolute or relative,
the stored value for all recorded coordinate values is absolute. Since all
coordinate values are stored as absolute with an action macro, you can toggle
between using the absolute or relative to previous point value for a recorded
coordinate value during playback. The first recorded coordinate value or
coordinate value after a UCS change is always defined as absolute. An absolute
coordinate value in an action macro is used as the base point for all later
relative coordinate values.
You can toggle the behavior of a coordinate value from the Action tree on the
Action Recorder. You can also change all coordinate values in an action macro
to be relative or absolute from the top node in the Action tree.
To toggle a coordinate value to be absolute or relative to the previous point
1 On the ribbon, click Manage tab ➤ Action Recorder panel. Click the
down arrow next to the Action Macro list.
2 In the Action Macro list, select the action macro that contains the
coordinate value node you want to modify.
3 Expand the Action Recorder panel.
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