GEOGRAPHICLOCATION command

Opens the Geographic Location dialog box, enabling you to assign geographic location data to a drawing file

BricsCAD Lite; BricsCAD Pro; BricsCAD Mechanical; BricsCAD BIM

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Alias: GEO

Description

Opens the Geographic Location dialog box.

The Geographic Location dialog box allows you to set the geographic location of the drawing by applying the longitude and latitude to a point in the drawing.

  1. GIS Coordinate System
  2. Latitude / Longitude
  3. Position
  4. North direction
  5. Elevation

GIS Coordinate System

Reports the GIS system being used by the drawing.

Note: Click the Browse button () to change the GIS Coordinate System.
Store geographic location information in drawing
When checked, a red dot indicates the position in the drawing.
Use Map Grid coordinate system
When enabled, the drawing is associated with real-world coordinates, the location data from GIS Coordinate System.
Note: When disabled, the origin point is determined by the values entered for X, Y, and Z, which correspond with the latitude and longitude.

Latitude / Longitude

Choose Location
Specifies the graphic location through the Choose Geographic Location dialog box.
Degrees Minutes Seconds Lat/Long
Displays the location in a Degrees, Minutes and Seconds format.
Decimal Lat/Long
Displays the location in a decimal format.
Latitude
Sets the latitude. The valid range is 0 to 90.
Longitude
Sets the longitude. The valid range is 0 to 180.
Time zone

Specifies the time zone from the Time Zone drop list.

Note: This setting is saved to the TIMEZONE system variable.

Position

Specifies the position of the location in the drawing by entering coordinate values.

Note: You can also select a specific point in the workspace to set the position.

North direction

Specifies the angle of the sun from north, in the context of the world coordinate system.

Note: The setting is saved to the NORTHDIRECTION system variable.

Elevation

Specifies an elevation for the long-lat point. The value can be positive or negative.

About CSMAP

CSMAP is a coordinate system and map projection that allows users to access more geographic coordinates conversions and more precise geospatial analysis. Coordinate systems are a very important piece of mapping or geospatial coordinates, and are constantly updated.

You can download and install CSMAP coordinate system on demand:

  1. Click here to download the CSMAP coordinate system.
  2. Unzip the archive and copy the content of the coordinate_system folder in the BricsCAD installation folder.

    The default path is: C:\Program Files\Bricsys\BricsCAD V24 en_US.

  3. The next time BricsCAD is started, the GEOGRAPHICLOCATION command will display a combined list of coordinate systems from Geodatabase.xml and CoordinateSystemFiles folder.