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Locating the current coordinates of a point in AutoCAD products
March 20, 2026 - You can use the ID command to determine the specific coordinates of a point on an object in a drawing. After you execute the command, you can click on any location on the screen with your mouse (with or without the use of snaps) and the exact coordinates of that point (x, y, and z) will be reported
Finding the real cordinates behind a autocad map.
Type GEOMAP in the command line, and see if it lets you add an aerial map or image to the drawing. If so, you're in luck, and somewhere on your status bar on the bottom should indicate your coordinate system. After that, a quick google should be able to convert that to whatever system you need. If it says there is no coordinate system defined, you're less lucky, or....MUCH less lucky. How do you know if you're less lucky or in serious trouble? Well, what are the coordinate boundaries in AutoCAD of your map? Depending on whether you're using metric or imperial, it may vary. But for metric, you'll usually see a 6 digit X and 7 digit Y coordinate for most standard coordinate systems that cover much of North America (I'm assuming that's where your site is, correct me if I'm wrong). For imperial, it's 7 for X, 8 for Y (IIRC, haven't worked on imperial drawings in a few years). If that seems to match up when your UCS is set to world, then you can likely deduce what coordinate system it is somehow, or go through some trial and error. If there is a 0,0 it's probably in some sort of local coordinate, so you're going to have to do a lot of work to figure out where it is (if it's even plausible). And even if it is, there will definitely be some discrepancies. I know people who have worked in drafting who are the opposite of new to this, and unless they worked in a discipline that had them dealing with georeferenced survey info or, more recently, working closely with a GIS team, this stuff is complicated. More on reddit.com
Command to show Cursor's XY coordinates?
Bottom right corner click the options tab ( 3 bars) should be able to select from there. More on reddit.com
Extracting coordinates from polyline
Inside AutoCAD. I’m not sure. But you can import the text from the command line and replace characters to end op with file that can be a CSV. That being said the internet is full of random lisp routines as well if you are doing this often. https://www.cadforum.cz/en/simple-export-of-vertex-coordinates... More on reddit.com
How to extract points of a drawing (coordinates) to excel
You will want to use the DATAEXTRACTION command. More on reddit.com
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Click Home tabUtilities panelID Point. Find · Click the location that you want to identify. The X,Y,Z coordinate values are displayed at the Command prompt.
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COORDINATES IN AUTOCAD - Evolve Consultancy
October 14, 2022 - To set a UCS from the Ribbon View tab > Coordinates panel, click the 3 Point button. AutoCAD will prompt Specify new origin point click the point you wish to be the 0,0 location for the new UCS.
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CAD Forum - How to find the map coordinate system of a drawing?
2 days ago - Another option for displaying the current coord.system (CS) is the dialog of the mapping command ADESETCRDSYS (N/A in plain AutoCAD): Under the button "Select Coordinate System" (or through the command MAPCASSIGN) you can find the EPSG code of a given system - search for the name of the CS from the first dialog box:
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March 24, 2023 - Click Home tabUtilities panelID Point. Find Click the location that you want to identify. The X,Y,Z coordinate values are displayed at the Command prompt. With object snaps turned on, you can select an object and see the coordinates for a feature such as an endpoint, midpoint, or center
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r/AutoCAD on Reddit: Finding the real cordinates behind a autocad map.
August 10, 2022 -
(I’m new to this) I had a person that had a Total Station machine map out land belonging to me. I since made changes to that map inside autocad software. To perform those changes irl I need to know the points irl behind those cords. I want to know how i can use the coordinates to find out the real location of the area.
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Type GEOMAP in the command line, and see if it lets you add an aerial map or image to the drawing. If so, you're in luck, and somewhere on your status bar on the bottom should indicate your coordinate system. After that, a quick google should be able to convert that to whatever system you need. If it says there is no coordinate system defined, you're less lucky, or....MUCH less lucky. How do you know if you're less lucky or in serious trouble? Well, what are the coordinate boundaries in AutoCAD of your map? Depending on whether you're using metric or imperial, it may vary. But for metric, you'll usually see a 6 digit X and 7 digit Y coordinate for most standard coordinate systems that cover much of North America (I'm assuming that's where your site is, correct me if I'm wrong). For imperial, it's 7 for X, 8 for Y (IIRC, haven't worked on imperial drawings in a few years). If that seems to match up when your UCS is set to world, then you can likely deduce what coordinate system it is somehow, or go through some trial and error. If there is a 0,0 it's probably in some sort of local coordinate, so you're going to have to do a lot of work to figure out where it is (if it's even plausible). And even if it is, there will definitely be some discrepancies. I know people who have worked in drafting who are the opposite of new to this, and unless they worked in a discipline that had them dealing with georeferenced survey info or, more recently, working closely with a GIS team, this stuff is complicated.
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Normally you'd either export a list of points from CAD or a .dxf layout plan and import it into the logger of the Total Station or whatever device you used to take the initial survey points. Then when you get to site you'd be able to see your location relative to the exact location of the points on the logger
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November 21, 2025 - Knowing how to read and extract coordinates speeds up troubleshooting and collaboration. ... Type ID and press Enter. Click the point in the drawing whose coordinates you want. AutoCAD displays the X, Y, (and Z) values in the command line.
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COORDINATE SYSTEMS IN AUTOCAD - The CAD Masters
June 18, 2024 - We just told AutoCAD we wanted a line starting at 4,6, and ending at 5,3. It made a segment between those two points. The first point is 4 to the right and 6 up from the origin. The second point is 5 to the right and 3 up from the origin. The line is the shortest distance between those two points. For relative coordinates, AutoCAD does not count from 0,0.
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March 30, 2020 - AutoCAD LT 2019 · By: Help · Help · 0 contributions · In-product view · SHARE · Click Home tabUtilities panelID Point. Find · Click the location that you want to identify. The X,Y,Z coordinate values are displayed at the Command prompt. With object snaps turned on, you can select an ...
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r/AutoCAD on Reddit: Command to show Cursor's XY coordinates?
October 6, 2018 -
I'm relatively new to AutoCAD, and I think it would be a help to have the XY coordinates of the cursor be displayed as I'm working. (Either next to the cursor or in a toolbar)
This seems like it should be a simple toggle somewhere, but I haven't found it yet. (I am using 2018 and 2019 editions on PCs at my college)
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How to obtain the geographical coordinates of a point in AutoCAD
December 9, 2024 - When we need the geographic location of a point instead of drawing coordinates in AutoCAD, how do we obtain it? Try the following steps: Go to 'Geolocation' tab > Tools panel > choose 'Point' from the drop-down menu. Place a point at the required location for which geographic coordinates are ...
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