Sure, I know how to find out the relative coordinates, but I don't see how I 
can use them directly when moving or editing an element?

Say I've got a resistor placed somewhere. I measure the physical box where the 
pcb should reside and happen to find there is a screw mount right there, and 
using a caliper I find that the resistor would be perfect if moved 32 x 16mm 
from the PCB lower left corner?

As far as I know I will have to take the position of the PCB's lower left 
corner in relation to the page origin and subtract y=16mm and add 32mm to get 
the new position..

Instead of all calculations it would be useful if one could just choose check a 
box somewhere to use the origin set by "Offset adjust for drill and place 
files." for future positioning, when directly entering positions, instead of 
the page origin.

regards
Andreas

--- In [email protected], Robert <birmingham_spi...@...> wrote:
> Yes - move the cursor to where you want the origin and press the space 
> bar.   In the bottom right-hand corner you'll see both absolute and 
> relative co-ordinates.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert.

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