Latitude/Longitude in a CAD program
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Topic: Latitude/Longitude in a CAD program
Posted By: photodavid6
Subject: Latitude/Longitude in a CAD program
Date Posted: 08.Feb.2010 at 02:34
Hi All,
Newbie here with almost no experience in cad programs, but wanting to find a program that would allow me to input latitude/longitude (northing/easting if necessary) into a cad drawing. Does anyone know of a program that would allow me to do that? Since I am not going to be using this that often if there was a program that would be free/low cost, it would be tremendously helpful.
Oh, and before you ask, I did a search through google, but did not turn up an option.
David
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Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 08.Feb.2010 at 07:58
E.g. both "mapping" versions of AutoCAD - AutoCAD Map 3D and AutoCAD Civil 3D - can do this.
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Vladimir Michl (moderator)
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Posted By: photodavid6
Date Posted: 08.Feb.2010 at 17:28
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Do you know if just the newest version will handle it or whether older versions would do the same?
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Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 08.Feb.2010 at 17:40
Any AutoCAD Map version will do.
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Vladimir Michl (moderator)
ARKANCE - https://arkance.world" rel="nofollow - https://arkance.world - Autodesk Platinum Partner
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Posted By: KobusErasmus
Date Posted: 25.Feb.2010 at 18:55
In actual fact if all you want to do is enter the points, then even Autocad can handle it. Just convert the degrees into decimals and enter it as x and y coordinates. Done that before on the odd occassion....
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Kobus Erasmus
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