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How can i work with a plant 3D file (mm) in real coordinates UTM-Meters units?

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batistafran
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How can i work with a plant 3D file (mm) in real coordinates UTM-Meters units?

 
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We have had trouble with this at our company, but feet & inches.

The only thing we have found that works is to XREF your background TOPO (the UTM-Meters file in your case) into the Plant 3D drawing, then set the scale of that drawing to correct for the Plant 3D units. In our case, the scale is 1/12. In your case, 1/1000 (I think).

This is not an elegant solution and sometimes creates other issues, but it works most of the time. I would love to see someone else give a better answer though.

Stephan
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Why not just work at a local coordinate system and then have the offset put into the Project Properties so all the Iso's come out in real world coordinates. Do you need to see the real coordinates in the model itself?



Tomislav Golubovic
Technical Specialist - Plant and Infrastructure
Autodesk Australia / New Zealand
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk ANZ YouTube Channel
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Tomislav,

 

Could you maybe provide more info, like a screen shot, on where we would do that?  I do not see a place for that in my project setup.

 

Thanks

Ed Adkins
EA2 Engineering
www.ea2eng.com
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Sure thing, here is the pic.

 

If you go to Project Properties, then under the Isometric DWG Settings, then Default Settings, and you'll see the model offset values for Rotation and XY displacement.



Tomislav Golubovic
Technical Specialist - Plant and Infrastructure
Autodesk Australia / New Zealand
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk ANZ YouTube Channel

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