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Geo-marker: an unselectable cone-arrow in AutoCAD drawings

A - answer If you find a 2D arrow ("flower") or a color 3D cone in your drawing and this artifact entity cannot be selected, it is probably the "geomarker" placed to that position with the GEOGRAPHICLOCATION command:

Geo-marker in AutoCAD 2009 CZ

This command sets the geographic location of the current drawing (model, project) - e.g. for export to Google Earth, sun lighting or environment calculations/analysis.

There are three ways to specify the geo-location:

  1. manually enter the latitude and longitude data (e.g. from a GPS), plus the north direction
  2. import (load) the current position from the running Google Earth application
  3. import an existing KML or KMZ file in the Google Maps format (see e.g. the KML file with CAD Studio's offices - you can enter its web URL directly in the Import KML dialog)
You can switch off the marker with the GEOMARKERVISIBILITY variable.
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See also:
Tip 13421:The MAPIINSERT command does not offer a georeference (data from the world file)
Tip 13296:How to correctly load a KML/KMZ file into Civil or Map 3D?
Tip 13234:How to place a GeoTIFF image automatically into the correct position?
Tip 13221:Attractor - snap multiple objects to existing points/vertices.
Tip 12881:How to attach multiple raster images to my DWG in one go?


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