Hi, Looking for some guidance on how to get the live maps to work correctly.
To me & our civil designers, the tool feels like it's been built very separate to AutoCAD in a way where it's not logical in how it defines a location & links to a geo-referenced location.
The issue is that when you start the tool, you search for a street & apply a GIS coord system etc., but after locating this, we are at a loss to why AutoCAD then requires you to "pick a point" & "Nth direction" in the drawing space (the modelspace coords them become irrelevant or incorrect).
From our point of view (which is up for discussion), once you search your location/street etc AutoCAD should automatically display the map in the correct location/coords in modelspace without any user input? in line with the coords system you selected within the geo-referencing tool.
It feels like the tool is actually very separate to AutoCAD & in no way linked to the model space coord system, thus not accurate as you can't pick a point in modelspace inch perfect.
Before this tool was in Acad, we have always received our survey data in the correct GIS coord system for our geo location & place this into modelspace at the correct coords & continued our design from there (in the correct place in space). This would be in Easting’s & Northings (not minutes/seconds/degrees as is the only option to manually input from the tool)
Unless we are missing something (which is what i'm hoping), it feels like the new Geo Maps tool is significantly underestimating the link between the GIS coords system & the AutoCAD modelspace coords (which should be the same).
We feel the tool should just place a map in modelspace at the correct MS coords which mirror the chosed GIS grid system, from there, you start xref'ing in your survey & progress your design - very simply & logical (to us at least).
Hopefully we are just looking at this from the wrong angle & one of you can point us in the right direction.
Additionally, - another observation - why did Autodesk deploy this tool & remove the function to print the drawing with the map imagery displaying? Makes it pretty much useless for civil projects if this is the case.
Any thoughts,assistance is very much appreciated.
Cheers.