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I am not a fan of this. I don't recall the particular situation but I seem to recall this did not work as expected. I wish I had documented my findings. Fortunately, we have Free Form and Curves so that is always my go to.

I believe there are ways to use secondary alignments, 3d best fits, geometry best fits, etc., to build an equivalent to a "less than fully constrained" datum reference frame, but since there would be quite a few variations, there's no "one simple rule" that I can state. Just have to work things out logically....
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Well I tried 3 different approaches.
1. Just used base A in profile char.
2. Created new alignment with primary set to base A and created new alignment from curves: selected move XYZ rotate Y
3. Created new alignment with primary set to base A, used recalled points to another curve with setted alignment as newAlignment with base A and choosed bestfitting XYZ and Y

1. did 0.0982
2. did 0.0982
3. did 0.0975

I choosed Y because i have curve on Y plane.
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You're going to need to align the part somehow to gather data, and you're going to need nominals. Let's assume you can align it with spatial as the top Z plane (3 DOF), top edge as X rotation and Y origin (2 DOF), and left end as a point for X origin (1 DOF) and that you have a CAD model for nominals.

One way is to section the part in Z and create a closed curve around the perimeter. Then best fit the curve based on the unconstrained DOF. Datum -A- constrains 3 DOF, 1 origin, and 2 rotational. So you allow the others to best fit. You can do that in the curve itself, create a BF alignment separately, etc. So X and Y would be allowed to translate, and Z would be allowed to rotate for the best fit. Then use that alignment in the profile characteristic to report the profile.

There are a few different ways to do this. This is just one.
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