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World Coordinate Point

Jackcowdrey
Contributor
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
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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.
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Jackcowdrey
Contributor
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?!
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
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.
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Minh Nguyen
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
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

Minh Nguyen
Technical Support Engineer
GRAPHISOFT

njal
Newcomer

Hi

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

 

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