ArcGIS for AutoCAD geolocation troubleshoot

[kascUGWU5]

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?

[pendean]

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/

[Pointdump]

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

[kascUGWU5]

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

[cadffm]

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)

[cadffm]

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

[kascUGWU5]

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

[Pointdump]

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

[kascUGWU5]

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?

[pendean]

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

[kascUGWU5]

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