Thankyou very much for your replies.
Exporting out to an excel file 'might' be okay........it depends on what the customer is prepared to accept, and what my bosses would be prepared to spend lol.
I am pretty surprised that Inventor cannot export the same entities which it can import......its quite strange.
Yesterday, I went around the 3d sketches and placed centerpoints on all the dots (which took a while) and tried that option, thinking that perhaps I needed something extra to be in the 3d Sketch for it to output, but nope, that didnt work either.
I am currently having to export an IGES file from Inventor, bring it into another older CAD system (which isnt Autodesk related) and then inserting the original customers files back in "over the top", after scaling and re-aligning the parts in 3d space.
I have spent quite a few hours trying to sort this out, and I am potentially leaving myself open to error.......but I have done what I needed to get done this way now, so the immediate heat is off my head.
I suppose if the customers NX system can import points from a spreadsheet it could be an option Bob. At the moment I dont know whether it is going back through NX, or whether in the future they want to port the fixturing right into the PCDMIS style CMM inspection software they have (I do not know which program that is).
I was kind of hoping somebody (perhaps from Autodesk) would say "oh, you do this, this, this and this, and there are the points for output" lol.
Thanks for the possibility of the spreadsheet though Bob, that might be good to know. I would have to wait and see though.
Sirius2009.