Hi All,I am new here but not to Engineering or CAD.

I have just installed DraftSight and like what I see, but I have a problem. I have searched the tutorials and the help systems and while it appears to do what I want it does not save it correctly to DXF.

The Problem:
I have drawn an Entity with the lower left corner at 2.000,3.000,0.000.

Using "CCS" and "Entity", I set the XYZ position to the lower left corner of my Entity currently at 2.000,3.000,0.000. When I hit "Enter", the XY indicator jumps to the corner of the Entity and the coord display in the bottom line shows 0.000,0.000,0.000. All good so far.

When I save the file in DXF (R12 ASCII) and load it into my CAM system, the Origin of the Entity is still offset from the CAM system origin of 0,0. The Entity is back at the 2.000,3.000 position. That means in the CAM system I have to first move the Entity back to 0,0 before I can start.

Is it me or is it Draftsight? How can I fix it?

Oh, I tried it in several other apps that will load DXF and all show the same 2,3 offset so it is something to do with me and/or Draftsight.

Thanks

Craig