topic Re: World Coordinate Point in Libraries & objects

World Coordinate Point

Jackcowdrey — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:55:25 GMT

Hi all,

I am trying to add a world coordinate point in my model, to reference in some survey plans. I am using Archicad 22.

I am trying to place in the object 'World Coordinate Dimensions'. Once I select the object then click in the model it creates a point with the associated world coordinates. However, what I want to do is the reverse: enter the world coordinates to give me a point. Can anyone please tell me how to do this? I can't figure it out for the life of me!

Thanks

Re: World Coordinate Point

Christophe Fortineau — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:02:23 GMT

Hello Jackcowdrey,

You can input these coordinates here :
Option/Project Préférences/Location Settings
To understand how it works :
https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/user-guide/127874/
IFC BIM model include geodesic coordinates.
To export these geodesic coordinates into an IFC model you have to check your IFC translator before.

Re: World Coordinate Point

Jackcowdrey — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:24:58 GMT

Thank you for your response however changing the project location is not what I meant.

I already have the project location set up, what I want to do is create a new point in the model by entering in the world coordinates. Surely there must be a simple way to do this?!

Re: World Coordinate Point

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:46:16 GMT

This is a curious issue because when I check the Object, I can see that there are fields for this among the settings but they are grayed:

I think these are the fields that you are looking for. And I suppose the way it should work is you set the coordinates here and no matter where you click, the Object is placed at the specified coordinates.

Re: World Coordinate Point

Minh Nguyen — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:27:28 GMT

Hi Laci,

Thank you very much for bringing it to our attention!

We have investigated the object and concluded that those disabled parameters were a bug. We registered it as DEF-4677. I hope that it won't be a difficult one to fix.

Have a great day!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: World Coordinate Point

njal — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 21:13:12 GMT

Hi

Use Coordinate Dimension 16 in order to place the object based on Lat/Lng.