Hi Peer,
>Do you mean this plugin?
Yes

>I can imagine that adding the icon might not work, but if you set up a shortcut key for "Ordinate" does that work?
I did this and it works. Thanks

I noticed that it is therefore necessary, to carry out the dimensioning, to move the supposed (chosen) origin of the coordinates of the element that we want to dimension (the local 0.0) to the origin of the world (the 0.0 overall).
In the example case of my plan above, I have 3 local origins. So, 2 movements of all the elements (entities) created.

Hi Zooen,

Glad to hear you got the plugin working.

It sounds like you're moving the view of the part to the world origin adding the dimensions, and then moving the dimensions and the part away from the origin. I hadn't thought of doing it that way.

I set up local coordinates using the CPlane tool which lets me snap the coordinate system onto the part.

http://moi3d.com/4.0/docs/moi_command_reference5.htm#CPlane

For each view I have to set the local origin again. One problem with this approach is that there's a bug in my code and with some orientations of the local coordinates I get an error message, so maybe your method is better until I get a chance to fix that.

- Peer