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Legacy dimension - profile of a surface

First of all, I am aware this topic has been covered, but my google-fu failed to find a solution for my current conundrum.

All that follows is relative to PC-DMIS 2012

Part setup:
Datum A: Cylinder along Z, locking X, Y and two rotational DoF
Datum B: Plane perpendicular to A, locking Z
Datum C: Plane perpendicular to B at 5.5 basic from A's axis, locking the last rotational DoF

Callout:
Profile of a surface of datum C relative to datum A

The issue:
While this is pretty straightforward to do with exact dimensions, the report template at my current workplace plays nicely only with legacy dimensions.
The result of legacy profile of a surface (form and position, LSQ best fit) while aligned to ABC are different (worse) than exact above.
To my understanding this is to be expected as legacy "form and location" fits to the current alignment, which is restricting 6 DoF instead of just 4 as Datum A alone would.
If this is the case, is there any way to use legacy with the callout that I have?
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  • Than you for the detailed instructions.
    I followed them but I am still getting discrepancies between Legacy and Xact.

    I rerun the program to make sure (on a different part) and I am seeing Min/Max of -.0.14/-0.049 for Legacy VS -.0.16/-0.048 for Xact

    Since you worked on 2012 R1 as well, do you think this might be related to some difference in PC-DMIS settings?
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  • Than you for the detailed instructions.
    I followed them but I am still getting discrepancies between Legacy and Xact.

    I rerun the program to make sure (on a different part) and I am seeing Min/Max of -.0.14/-0.049 for Legacy VS -.0.16/-0.048 for Xact

    Since you worked on 2012 R1 as well, do you think this might be related to some difference in PC-DMIS settings?
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