This might be hard to explain without showing a print. Wish I could, but that's a no-no since they're confidential documents and all. Anyway, let's say I have an older print with holes that are dimensioned to each other, rather than to a datum or to a common origin point. They also have a true position call out. As I understand it, you can select either "current alignment" or "datum reference frame" when creating a position dimension for the holes. If I was required to report the holes with the nominal dimensions from the print, rather than from the datum reference frame, say for PPAP purposes, does that mean I would have to create an alignment for every single hole to get them to report exactly as the print dimensions them? Or is there a more efficient way to do that? I hope I'm making sense. I'm still pretty new to this.
Personally if I had to report the basic dimensions I would title Dimension for customer ref only and remove the tolerance and deviation from the reporting in the preferences so as not to muddy the water with any potential out of tolerances as there is no tolerance to report to
