Importing DWG as external drawing wrong coordinates compared to XREF

MartinC — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:33:39 GMT

Hello everyone,

I will do my best to translate tools and settings because I work in non INT version of Archicad. In my recent project I have inheritted from coleague (I mention this, because there might some setting in the project which I might have not used, but someone else) I have come across a problem. My project is set into real world coordinates by survey point. I was used to importing DWG with external drawing tool by checking the "use internal base of drawing as anchor" and if my survey point was set correctly and if the refference project was set correctly and i clicked on survey point to place the drawing, it would fit correctly.

But in this project when placing the drawing, in is offset. Strange thing is, the refference is in correct coordinates, because when I place the refference not by clicking on the survey point with "External drawing" tool, but by Xref, it fits correctly.

Anyone has any idea what could be causing this behavior?

Martin

Operating system used: Windows 11

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