I have a V5 macro program that needs to use a different coordinate system for the model. So I tried the axis function to create a new axis. But I can't find a way to make it active. Workaround: move geometry all over the place, which is a pain.
Thank you both for your help. I can certainly set the new axis to active. However, when I use the caliper thing to measure the coordinates of a point, the resulting values still come from the default axis, not the new one. I have heard that this may be a bug with V5R13.
I found the 'other axis' option in the caliper measurement thing, and it works, but doesn't that make the 'set axis as current' property in the axis on the tree, redundant? And since you have to pick the option with every measurement, my macro program will still not work, since it is designed around another axis which cannot be automatically accessed. It seems to me that the 'set current axis' parameter does not work, and should be on Dassault's list of things to fix.