This paper proposes CAD2DMD-SET, a synthetic data generation tool, to address the real-world challenge of large-scale vision-language models (LVLMs) struggling with the simple task of reading values from digital measurement devices (DMDs). CAD2DMD-SET leverages 3D CAD models, advanced renderings, and high-fidelity image synthesis to generate a diverse VQA-labeled synthetic DMD dataset, along with a validation set, DMDBench, for evaluating real-world constraints. Evaluations on three state-of-the-art LVLMs demonstrate significant performance improvements for models trained with CAD2DMD-SET, with InternVL achieving a 200% performance boost. CAD2DMD-SET will be open-sourced in the future.