Ok, so I am going to try to explain this the best way that I know how. I hope that you guys can follow me.
A lot of the time, I have to import 3D drawings from other software, usually Inventor and Solidworks. From these drawings, I have to build a fixture for holding. I have the hardest time dimensioning these 3D drawings in bobcad because the dimension feature wants to tell me the distances in real 3D space. But, what I really need, is the 2D dimension for the current view that I am looking at.
As is many times the case, I may need to get the X and Y coordinates of a feature, but not neccessarily the Z at the moment. But when I try to dimension, it gives me a point to point distance in X, Y, and Z.
If I havent explained this well enough, let me know and I will try better.
Hope you guys can help me out.
Thanks in advance