Geographic Location keeps changing

[bnagel]

So, I messed up & used the geographic location!! How do i undo it, get rid of the marker? It's really messing things up, even a new drawing that referenced to a nice aerial that was very believable.

[Pointdump]

Bobby,

"Remove Location"

Dave

[Jay_B]

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@Anonymous wrote:

 How do i undo it, get rid of the marker?

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geomarkervisibility = 0

[bnagel]

When I remove the location, it also removes my coordinate system. And now ALL of my drawings are not showing the proper map area. I'm somewhere in New Mexico!!! Grrrrr

[Pointdump]

Bobby,

"When I remove the location, it also removes my coordinate system."

Yes. And then you re-assign the coordinate system with _MAPCSASSIGN.

Dave

[bnagel]

Well, that got me closer! I'm now south of Amarillo!! I need to be in Tulsa, OK. NAD83, OK North Zone, US Survey feet.

[Pointdump]

Bobby,

You're killing me. Let's take this one step at a time.

Your Post #1 said:
"...I messed up & used the geographic location!! How do i undo it, get rid of the marker?"

Remove Location fixes that. Then if you re-assign a coordinate system you should be good to go and can use Bing Live Maps again. So at this point you need to supply more details, post your drawing or screenshots or a screencast, so that we can see what you see.

Dave

[bnagel]

LOL!! I kill myself, sometimes.

I removed the location but, there was still a marker point under Geographic Location-Edit Location. I figured out how to remove the marker location, which was in Lat/Long.

Then I converted a state plane coordinate point to Lat/Long and was able to re-orient the marker point to my coordinate point.

My map now looks correct.

Whew!!!

[bnagel]

I alway take a drawing from a client and copy it over to my own template, thereby saving the integrity of the original drawing. I'm thinking my template may have the location marked somewhere out west, instead of none at all. I'll need to investigate.

You should know that I work for a construction company and all I do is create COGO points for layout work. I get drawings from all over the state!

[Pointdump]

Bobby,

"I'm now south of Amarillo!"

Yup, your drawing is somewhere south of the desired Northern Oklahoma. Are you sure about the US Survey Feet units?

Dave

[Pointdump]

Bobby,

Curiouser and curiouser. When I open your drawing it has no coordinate system assigned. I assign OK83-NF and the Transformation Tab lights up and shifts your points and linework towards Amarillo. (I had dinner in Amarillo this last Saturday. Golden Corral is awesome there!) If I then turn off the Transformation Tab, the drawing gets closer but it's still off 2-300 feet to the East.

Dave

[bnagel]

I saw that as well. I was able to get a little closer with this drawing and using point #7 as a transformation point. Not sure I understand what transformation really does.

[bnagel]

Look at how well this attached drawing comes in with the same coordinate zone.

[Pointdump · Accepted solution]

Bobby,

I've had mixed results in my attempts to understand the Transformation Tab, but one thing I know for sure it does is break Bing Live Maps. If you're confident of your points and linework, and just need to shift Live Maps a bit, @mathewkol has a really cool way:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/screencast/Main/Details/fe113525-2...

I'm opening up your last two drawings right now.

Dave

[bnagel]

After watching the video, that's what I was doing!!! 

[Pointdump]

Bobby,

Close, but could use a little "adjusting". So you figured out how to do that by yourself?

Regent Prep Base:

Skiatook Municipal Base:

Dave

[bnagel]

Yes, I did!! I may or may not adjust. It's close enough for now.

Practice would help, though.

[bnagel]

How do you make those screenshots, and mark them up?

[Pointdump]

Bobby,

One of the keys on your keyboard should say "prt sc" or some such. Hit that, open up Microsoft Paint, and hit paste. Inside Paint you can crop, add arrows, rectangles, lines, text, etc. Once you're done, save as a PNG and then you can put the image "inline" or as an attachment.

Dave