Wrong Coordinates

[jroot]

On Monday I brought in some new cogo points to a dwg that has been around for years. Local coord system, no transformation, nothing fancy.  On Wednesday another user goes into the dwg and does some work, now the cogo point coordinates do not match the N+E at the bottom of the screen by a random displacement (roughly 2000' each way). This user knows nothing about cogo points and would have no idea how to change datums or CS's. Nothing actually moved in Modelspace, all 46 tabs with viewports show the correct location.

I've tried a lot of the obvious to fix but would like any suggestions. I also have a backup from Monday to compare before things changed.

[AllenJessup · Accepted solution]

Even if the drawing isn't in a Geodetic CS. If one is set and the coordinates are set to Geographic. The display will be in Lat and Long.

It's also possible there is a UCS set.

[jroot]

We got it.

UCS: World  fixed it.

I had typed in UCS and seen that <World> was in the brackets and assumed that was what it was set to and hit ESC, but it wasn't.

[jroot]

A "longer-time user" in the office had the fix for me but I'll give @AllenJessup the score 🙂

[AllenJessup]

Amazing what's buried in the mind of a long-time user, 😉

[ChicagoLooper]

Hi @jroot 

Have you tried clicking directing on the coordinates displayed at the bottom of the program? Try right clicking on the display then select another option from the shortcut menu. Repeat and toggle through the options and see whether you get your desired coordinates.

The coordinates displayed represent different projections. For example, projected coordinates include coords such as State Plane and UTM with units in either feet or meters, while Lat/Longs are geographic coordinates with units of degrees.