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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle"> Point Fit</div>
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      <p class="para_topic"> You can scale, reposition, and shear objects. Transforming them from the set of the reference to the set of destination points. Two options are available: 3-Point Fit and 4-Point Fit.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> Point Fit involving Non-Uniform Scale cannot be performed on solid bodies, or sheet bodies other than the b-sheets.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> When an object is transformed, some or all of the associated data, (for example, the attributes, view modifications, drafting objects, dimensions, tool paths, or offset surfaces) may be lost.</p>
      <div class="title_division">3-Point Fit</div>
      <p class="para_division"> Allows you to scale and reposition objects by specifying three reference points and three destination points.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body"> Reference and destination points must not be collinear.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> The reference and destination points are aligned along straight lines, therefore only the scale increases.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> 3-Point Fit, Scale Transformation</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> 3-Point Fit, Scale and Rotate Transformation</p>
      <div class="title_division">Scale and Shear</div>
      <p class="para_division"> You can also use this option to scale and  <em>shear</em> objects in the same transformation. Do this by defining the destination points with a different angular relationship, than that of the reference points.
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      <p class="para_division"> 3-Point Fit, Scaling and Shearing the Part</p>
      <div class="title_division">Selection Order is Important</div>
      <p class="para_division"> The order in which you define reference and destination points is important because object's orientation to the destination points is identical to its orientation to the reference points. If the second and third destination points are selected in reverse order, the object rotates as shown below.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> 3-Point Fit, Destination Points are Selected in Reverse Order</p>
      <div class="title_division">4-Point Fit</div>
      <p class="para_division"> Transform objects between four reference points and four destination points. The distance from the reference points to the destination points and, the differences in angle are used to scale and orient the objects.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body"> Reference points must not be coplanar. </p>
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      <p class="para_division"> In the figure below, the reference and destination points maintain the same orientation. Therefore, the transformation results only in a scale increase. If reference and destination points do not have the same orientation, transformed objects may be repositioned, rescaled, and sheared.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> 4-Point Fit  </p>
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