What do you wish you could do with DimXpert?

what do you mean ancillary.

i like to create my own scheme and i can't manually add a BASIC dimension, period!

https://forum.solidworks.com/message/317768#317768

getting the DimXpert annotations in the correct views on drawings is a royal PITA.

I'd like to be able to use DimXpert annotations , in detail drawings the same way I can use Imported and Driving dimensions-change text location, oblique witness lines, increase origin offset extend leader lengths.

I'd like to be able to reground dangling dimXpert annotations.

If I've gone to the trouble of adding tolerances to model dimensions, I'd like to be able to convert those to DimXpert annotations

I'd like to see support for the Y14.5-2009 directional constraints for Datums (UVW and XYZ)

1.) it would be great to have an option to import the model dimensions to dimXpert

2.) sometimes I have problems to creat dimXpert dimension according the model dimension

     example-->https://forum.solidworks.com/message/391801#391801

we use dimXpert only because TolAnalyst works with dimXpert dimensions only

how do you establish points (X<>Y) for surface profile?

why is there an instance count?

1. I would like to be able to apply a Profile of a Surface All Over as a General Tolerance
2. Datum points
3. The ability to dimension to edges per ASME Y14.8-2009 for Castings, Forgings, and Molded Parts
4. Would be nice to be able to re-use driving dimensions from sketches and features
5. Ability to dimension in Assemblies

I haven't had a lot of luck using annotation views - I haven't experimented with using them much lately but I did not find the workflow as intuitive as many other functions in SolidWorks. 

I will try to use annotation views again - however due to #1-3 above DimXpert isn't complete enough for my needs

I am going to dig into it a little deeper though because I like the concept

I would thoroughly enjoy it if I could build a drawing template with predefined views that automatticaly imported the Dimxpert dimensions.

Matt,

Maybe I have not figured out the tool well enough to apply properly so my response might be jaded, with that said...

I'd like to be able to "update" the auto-dimension using the applied datum features when there is a change to the model... Without having to re-assign the datums AND without losing any manually modified tolerances. 

I'd also like the DimXpert dimensions to maintain their place on the drawing and not have the FCF go "off the page" or separate from the size dimension. 

This tool seems like good potential but is incomplete for going straight to a drawing at this time.  Looks nice in MBD extension preview but no experience working with that either.

I'd like to be able to "force" holes in DimXpert to group together.  Example...

SW- Simple hole (or hole wizard hole) created from outside face of part 'x' deep.  Then on perpendicular face of the part a slot is cut into the part clear through the hole.  (across the axis)  

Hole callout in in SW drawing annotation still sees this as one hole.

DimXpert sees this as one through, and hole one 'y'deep measuring from the inside face of the slot...   NOT correct in my book.  This is a continuous feature hole.  What's better if you have the same feature 'mirrored' across the part then DimXpert will combine the two outside "though (to slot)" holes and the 2 inside hole depth holes.  but the locating dimensions do not combine as 2X 'x' from datum & 2x 'y' from datum but as 1X and 3X  'x' from datum and 4X 'y' from datum.

I SHOULD be able to manually define (collect) them as a group or pattern BEFORE applying DimXpert and have it recognize this condition as a "continuous feature" constraint.

I second that DimXpert should read the tolerances applied (if any) at the sketch level and use those first.