ConstructionPointRef

A lightweight placeholder for a ConstructionPoint that hasn’t been fully loaded yet.

When you create construction points inside a SketchupOperation, the API returns ConstructionPointRef objects immediately, before SketchUp has finished processing the geometry. You can often pass these refs to other operation methods, but if you need the full ConstructionPoint instance, you can request it with entityForRef().

Think of a ref as a “claim ticket” — it guarantees a construction point will exist after the operation commits, but it doesn’t carry the point’s properties (position, etc.) yet. A ref is only valid inside the performOperation callback that created it — do not return it or use it after the operation commits.

Example

let model = await SketchUpApi.getActiveModel();
let { Point3d } = SketchUpApi;

await model.performOperation(async op => {
  const ptRef = op.createConstructionPoint(
    model, new Point3d(50, 75, 0)
  );
  const pt = await op.entityForRef(ptRef);
  console.log(pt.position.x, pt.position.y);
  // => 50 75
}, 'Create a construction point');

See

Since

SDK 2.7.0 Protocol 1.5.0

Properties

sketchupId

readonly sketchupId: SketchupId

type

readonly type: ConstructionPoint = EntityType.ConstructionPoint

Accessors

typeName

Get Signature

get typeName(): string

Returns a named variant of the type field.

Since

SDK 2.35.0

Returns

string

Methods

toString()

toString(): string

Returns

string