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Survey Point and Civil Coordinates

Matthew Lohden
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I am trying to udse the Survey Point for civil coordinates in AC25. It does not seem to accept northings and eastings over 999m. What am I missing? Since civil coordinates are typically in the range of millions of feet or hundreds of thousands of meters this seems useless. What I am looking for is a way to set the civil coordinates at the internal origin point (or any known point). The instructions I've found so far are unhelpful.

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ryejuan
Advisor

go to options menu > project preference > location settings

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In the end what is your Objective?
ArchiCAD 9 onwards
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin

Can you show a screenshot?

I tried it in the Location Settings Dialog and it lets me input very large numbers.

For me, the largest number it allows to input is 80,000,000 meters, which I guess should be fine as it is twice the length of the Equator.

 

By the way, are you that Matthew Lohden, the long-time Archicad user Matthew Lohden?

I suppose you did not claim your Archicad Talk account in that 3 month timeframe after the migration?

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