# Point Coordinate System

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/point-coordinate-system/21166>\
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**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/point-coordinate-system/21166 "2018-04-18T11:29:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![grybatur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@grybatur](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/grybatur)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/point-coordinate-system/21166/1 "2018-04-18T11:29:57Z")

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Hello all, thank you in advance.  
I have a simple&basic and embracing questions  
First of all how can i see a coordinate system icons of points ? like this

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/e/e/ee6da711bc0563dad242dbd78e928c4c6bf7ee1c.png)  
at the moment it is hard to foresee how components will be aligned without seeing this coordinate systems.

Second question, lets say i want to extract one coordinate system from one point and empose it to all other points.I am hoping that this will place all adaptive components to the points in same manner.

Somewhere i make a mistake since the result is unexpected here.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/f/3/f338460d4aa44caed427ea34080b067444cfb7f1.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/0/a/0a1483c04ce1415d6a4e61dbf215fbebb345d52e.png)

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**Author:** ![Nick\_Boyts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/nick_boyts/32/76313_2.png) [@Nick\_Boyts](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Nick_Boyts)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/point-coordinate-system/21166/2 "2018-04-18T15:40:50Z")

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I don’t know if points have a coordinate system - they have no axes. You can see the coordinate system they _came from_ though which might be what you’re looking for.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/b/8/b8eef7718a5c5f280f3bb260537d82fad412b285.png)

Edit: Just a little clarification… You can see that as soon as I create a point at (1,1,1) from a different _local_ CS it returns values based on the _world_ CS. So points are all read from the world CS as soon as they exist, but you can still see which CS they were created from.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/9/d/9d443616cea815d32125ca31c8e57fb80bb6432f.png)

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**Author:** ![Vikram\_Subbaiah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/vikram_subbaiah/32/50797_2.png) [@Vikram\_Subbaiah](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Vikram_Subbaiah)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/point-coordinate-system/21166/3 "2018-04-20T13:56:29Z")

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> [@grybatur](#):
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> how can i see a coordinate system icons of points ?

As mentioned by @Nick_Boyts above, points do not have an inherent coordinate system.  
However, you could get the icon by creating a coordinate system with a particular point as the origin.

> [@grybatur](#):
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> I am hoping that this will place all adaptive components to the points in same manner.

This won’t work. A single point adaptive component isn’t a good idea  
Instead convert it to a two point adaptive component and create an end point for every base point. The position of the end point should help orient the adaptive component.