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ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

kascUGWU5 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:40:55 GMT

When I turn on the ESRI map in an xref drawing, the map and the drawing line up well. But when I open the drawing which the xref is inserted into, the map does not line up with drawing. How can I resolve this?

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

pendean — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:46:05 GMT

ARCGIS support is over there https://support.esri.com/en
Their user forums (like here, but for that add-on) is over here https://community.esri.com/

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

Pointdump — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:18:14 GMT

Hi Kyle,
Welcome to the Autodesk Forums.
Are you using Vanilla AutoCAD or do you have Map 3D or Civil 3D?
Screen shots showing the misalignment would be helpful. Posting your drawings would be even better.
Dave

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

kascUGWU5 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:58:47 GMT

Thank you for the reply. I'm using vanilla (lol) autocad. Please see attached files

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

cadffm — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:13:55 GMT

You forgot to share an Screenshot or similar to show the issue.

I can not see what your trouble is.

Please share a markup or whatever we can be sure that we talk about the same.

(I would need to know what you expect and what you see instead)

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cadffm — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:19:44 GMT

if you are talking about the PDF: You forgot to share this file -

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

kascUGWU5 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:25:54 GMT

Here are two images of my drawings. The basemap shows the properly aligned survey on the esri map, and the second shows the construction drawing with the xref drawing, misaligned, floating in the ocean

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

Pointdump — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:50:56 GMT

Kyle,
Thanks for posting your drawings.
basemapTEST.dwg is in US Survey Foot units and JamesWilliamsCONCEPT.dwg is in Inch units. That is most likely the biggest source of trouble. External References Manager shows a PDF, vmap-1.pdf that you did not attach.
basemapTEST.dwg, after setting the UCS back to World, is correctly georeferenced, and the linework agrees with Bing Live Maps. (I don't have ArcGIS for AutoCAD, so can't test there)
Dave

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

kascUGWU5 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:12:57 GMT

Thank you for your help. I have set the units to US survey foot for both drawings. Now it is in the correct location, but the drawing is out of scale of the esri map. any thoughts on this?

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

pendean — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:49:00 GMT

@kascUGWU5 Like 12x out of scale? or 25.4x? or some other combo of that?

Re: ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

kascUGWU5 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:33:48 GMT

My drawing is at the correct scale (properties of line work showing lengths of lines as I intended) but the drawing is much larger than the space it should occupy on the esri map, see image