Wrong origin when stealing into 2D Script window

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

[Only recently started using 19 and maybe there is some new basic setting that I am missing, or maybe I am getting rusty and forgot something obvious:]

I place a hotspot on the origin (which I swear it is, the rulers show 0,0, etc.) in floor plan view. I drag it into the floating 2D Script window and get this:

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hotspot2 -127366.2544831, -121862.270517

?!

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

I tried File>New, 'Use the same settings…' —and it opens to the funny view in the image attached. (When I open from a template, same Work Environment, it opens OK.)

Going over several saved previous versions of the file (on AC17) the problem is still there. I just found that at some point I merged a stupid DWG which happened to have all its content around x: -7000 km, y: -6000 km (it may have to do with it having Autocad Civil information with World Coordinates).

I recall reading that elements too far from the origin mess up stuff in Archicad. Maybe it has to do with that. Deleting the stories with the DWG does not fix the problem though —maybe the Archicad file is messed up forever when it adjusts who knows what in order to deal with those huge dimensions.

[Piotr Dobrowolski]

AC is usually simplifying the coords when the data is placed far from the real origin, but a lot of problems show up when having data in the area of real origin of a file and somewhere very far from it.

Best Regards,
Piotr

[Anonymous]

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/troubleshooting/3d-modeling/far-from-origin/

This is what causes problems in coordinates in Archicad sometimes.

Hopefully something in this article may help.

The important thing is Origins are counted during the opening of files. After you repaired the plan, it should be saved, closed and opened again to get the updated origins.

I don't know if you have got any information far from the origin that may affect the origin, but if you do, follow these instructions to potentially fix it.

Archicad would randomly reset the origin point when doing large models, and this would effect the export origins for Artlantis. I could never find a fix for that, but the work around was to move the origin in the Artlantis reference file, so i could continue to use the Artlantis work flow.

All you can Do is Try...(Anti-yoda)

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

allanp wrote:
http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/troubleshooting/3d-modeling/far-from-origin/

This is what causes problems in coordinates in Archicad sometimes.

I dragged everything so that it fits within ~10 km (as opposed to thousands with the original world coordinates) and the 'wrong' origin given when stealing for GDL is now some 4000 m off, which is much closer than before but still unusable without some processing in Excel or whatever.

I remember suffering that Artlantis export problem too. I fear what may happen with this one in Artlantis.

Thanks very much.