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Best Practice for Plots Coordinates in Archicad

Karim L Sayed — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:20:56 GMT

hello everyone see my topic ,

how i can draw plot coordinates in ArchiCAD and but it in 0.0.0 coordinates of software and in same time keep my original plot coordinates in real same

Re: Best Practice for Plots Coordinates in Archicad

Lingwisyer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:25:35 GMT

Options => Project Preferences => Location Settings

That is where you would insert the real world coordinates of the files origin. You can then use the Survey Point to reference it.

Ling.

Re: Best Practice for Plots Coordinates in Archicad

Karim L Sayed — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:50:45 GMT

Thank you for your replay i try it but when i check coordinates point of plots after i move plot to 0,0,0 project point its give mis matching vaule with actual i know how I do that in Revit its allow to you to share or accrue coordinates from cad

Re: Best Practice for Plots Coordinates in Archicad

Erwin Edel — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:42:00 GMT

If you have a 2D site plan with real world coordinates, place this on a new independent worksheet. Then trace your floorplan underneath the site plan and move and rotate the trace to match your site plan. This allows you to easily set project north by swapping the trace (you end up with your floor plan and correctly rotated 2D site plan as trace) and you can reference back to the coordinates for your origin with this worksheet.

Next you can insert the coordinates in the location settings as Lingwisyer explained.

You probably need to a conversion from X-Y coordinates to latitude and longitude from whatever coordinate system you are using in your region (cartesian I would assume??).

Re: Best Practice for Plots Coordinates in Archicad

Karim L Sayed — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 05:45:32 GMT

I hope to give me steps to do that I'm new in ArchiCAD

Re: Best Practice for Plots Coordinates in Archicad

Karim L Sayed — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:10:39 GMT

Thank you so much for your clarification. I apply those steps and it gives me what I want graphically.