Hi,

We're looking for a relativley easy cad package at work for our machinists and technicians. Since I have a copy of ViaCAD pro at home, we are evaluating that as a possibility also. (May not need pro, but we're looking at the 2D stuff...)

However, the one kicker is a dimension style that's not very popular in cad. We need an XY Coordinate dimension capability.

We do a lot of manual and converstational CNC machining. One thing the machinists would really like the CAD package to do is a coordinate dimension. Basically, pick a reference point, and pick a bunch of 'dual ordinate' dimensions. So, pick some point, and place a bunch of dimensions that give the X-Y offset from that first point. It would be really nice if a leader were drawn to the target dimensions point, and allow the user to place the XY text as needed. The leader would then point back to the actual corner.

This is similar to the ordinate dimension, except that both axis dimensions would be displayed. This would make things a lot easier for the machinists, since they work in XY coordinate pairs off of a reference quite often. Me too, since I do this at home with my CNC machine and manual mill also...

Seems like it would be simple to include, but rarely is seen in cad.

Any thoughts as to if this could be added? Or any hacks to add that capability?

Thanks,
Dan

Edited by user Monday, November 3, 2014 1:54:15 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified