Plane With One Offset Point

Good morning all. I'm actually a CNC mill programmer trying to learn our Romer arm with PC-DMIS 2016 with zero experience so hopefully someone can help me out. I did a search with no luck, so sorry if this has been asked before.
I have a part that I'm trying to do Quick Start > Create Alignment > Plane/Line/Point but I can't figure out how to have the orientation match the part. The problem is the plane has one of it's 3 points called out as -2.556" from the other two points, and the line has one of it's points called out as -.675".
If anyone can offer any help I'd appreciate it. And when I say I have zero experience I mean I just touched the program for the first time yesterday.....

Zeros over 6 years ago

Would not a Progressive Alignment be needed before measuring the line and the point? This is how I would do 2d features for an Alignment... Measure the PLANE, level that plane and set Z Trans to that plane. Pick that plane as a projection plane, then measure the line and the point. Finally I would complete the alignment with Rotating the line and Trans the line and Trans the point. So actually I would need two Alignments to complete the full alignment if that makes any sense at all.
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tking over 6 years ago in reply to Zeros

Zeros, dead on the money, that locks it down tight as a drum! After leveling to the plane the "workplane" is fine for projection.

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