topic Re: Help with "Drawing Anchor Point: Use Internal Origin" in Documentation

Help with "Drawing Anchor Point: Use Internal Origin"

Scott Deisher — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:33:43 GMT

I can not find proper documentation of how to use this setting to anchor drawings in place. What exactly is the "Internal Origin" of a drawing? Can I set that origin manually for each drawing? Is it somehow related to the Set User Origin tool in the coordinates palette?

I would love to be able to manually place the user origin at a specific gridline and ensure that every drawing is placed on a layout using that origin as the same exact point. Can someone please exapl

Re: Help with "Drawing Anchor Point: Use Internal Origin"

Scott Deisher — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:05:54 GMT

To answer my own question, seems like the Internal Origin is just the 0,0 point of Archicad itself. I thought maybe the User Origin was being used as a unique origin point for each drawing, but it does not seem like this is the case.

Re: Help with "Drawing Anchor Point: Use Internal Origin"

Karel Landa — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:38:44 GMT

I'm looking for something else but to answer your question.

Internal Origin of drawing from view map that comes directly from Archicad is indeed the origin point of coordinates of your project.

If you place .dwg drawing, its internal origin is going to be X,Y=0,0 so you can use it to place it to correct position related to coordinate system used in your project 😉 (similar to what xref method does)