The ability to use a "Datum coordinate system" or preferably a MCS as the reference Coordinates of all point dialogue box's and line creation/edit dialog box's. This comes into play for me in many places, manual edit of toolpath, creating points, creating 3D lines to drive tools down.
Most all of the parts we build come in on the Airplane Coordinate system, ie. 900 inches from zero, and angled in both directions.
There are several good reasons we leave the part in this location. New Revs coming in, receiving point clouds for new hole locations or inspection.
Say i right click on an operation to edit the toolpath. The list of toolpath is from the MCS. Ie. say 2" in Z. When i goto edit the piece of toolpath, im brought to the point dialog, with a few choices of a reference coordinate system... all of which are 900" and crooked, meaningless numbers to me trying to edit anything.
The easiest thing i guess would be to in that pull down in the point dialog, to include all MCS? or Datum planes, Datum Coordinate systems? anything, even if i have to build something on top of, and aligned to my current MCS.
For me, this would come into play in many places, points, 3d lines, assembly locations for clamps. Basically every dialog that comes up only has the 900 inch, useless numbers and i have to roundaboutly get things where i want. "Rectangular Offset along vector" in the point dialog is a common fix. But many clicks.
Unless i'm missing something and this is solved another way?