khoshravan Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 AutoCAD help on "geographic location" says: Geographic location embeds location-specific references – expressed as real-world coordinates (X,Y, and Z) – in your drawing. In GL box, I only see input boxes for "latitude" and "longitude" with no boxes for x or y coordinate. Is it possible to calculate a drawing's coordinates with this command? As I search ed the help and this forum its main use is in rendering and sunlight calculation, but I am trying to search another function for it to calculate x, y coordinate of a drawing. Quote
bill_borec Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 It sounds like you are looking for the equivalent of a state plane coordinate or a conversion from Lat/Lon to X,Y coordinates. ACAD Map (also included in Civil3D) includes a conversion tool. Using VanillaCAD you may need to find another conversion tool...I have liked the US Army Corps of Engineer's CORPSCON available for free from their website. Good Luck. Quote
ScribbleJ Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 See the image below; X and Y fields are highlighted in yellow and circled in red. Do you want to put a specific coordinate system projection on the file instead? Quote
bill_borec Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 Scribble, you are correct, however, I don't believe this function is available in vanillaCAD, which OP has listed in 'using'. Quote
ScribbleJ Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 Scribble, you are correct, however, I don't believe this function is available in vanillaCAD, which OP has listed in 'using'. Ahh ok. Could be. I do not have vanilla AutoCad. The very least we use here is the Map 3D version so I cannot test this. However when I do a search in the help file and filter it to just AutoCad commands it does come up in the search. Edit: I found a PC with vanilla AutoCad on it here and this command is available. At least in the 2011 version. Quote
khoshravan Posted February 11, 2012 Author Posted February 11, 2012 See the image below; X and Y fields are highlighted in yellow and circled in red. Do you want to put a specific coordinate system projection on the file instead? [ATTACH=CONFIG]32865[/ATTACH] I am using AutoCAD 2077 and 2010. In 2007, the box is not like as you posted. I haven't checked 2010 yet. Bill: Your solution sounds good. I will download US Corps add in. thanks Quote
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