# Placing sketch point at precise locations
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/placing-sketch-point-at-precise-locations/21366
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [September 13, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/placing-sketch-point-at-precise-locations/21366 "2022-09-13T02:27:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Michael1](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Michael1)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/placing-sketch-point-at-precise-locations/21366/1 "2022-09-13T02:27:19Z")
Hi folks, I’ve decided its time to start digging into Shapr3d more I have continued to default to the tool I’m most comfortable with and since I’ve been a paying customer for a while I figure I should start to use Shapr more 🙂 I’m wondering how I can place the start and end of sketch points at specific distances from a reference point) For example lets say I have a corner sketched and I want to sketch an arc that ends at 6mm from the corner along both the x and y of the corner. How would I do this? Thanks! - Michael
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### Author:  [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 5:32am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/placing-sketch-point-at-precise-locations/21366/2 "2022-09-13T05:32:17Z")
Hi,
I would draw a line of that specific length, and start from that’s endpoint. You can change the line to Construction sketch too, so it doesn’t interfere with the other sketches.
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### Author:  [@Michael1](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Michael1)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/placing-sketch-point-at-precise-locations/21366/3 "2022-09-13T22:31:29Z")
Thanks, trying that technique. The only drawback is remembering to delete the extra lines and sometime they are no longer obvious.
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### Author:  [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 7:14am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/placing-sketch-point-at-precise-locations/21366/4 "2022-09-14T07:14:16Z")
If you change them to construction sketch, they won’t interfere with other sketches, so you can leave them there, no need to delete. 🙂