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

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:

manually enter the latitude and longitude data (e.g. from a GPS), plus the north direction
import (load) the current position from the running Google Earth application
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.

ACAD2014ACAD2012ACAD2009ADT2009Map2009Civil2009

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applies to: AutoCAD 2014 · AutoCAD 2012 · AutoCAD 2009 · AutoCAD Architecture 2009 · AutoCAD Map 3D 2009 · Civil 3D 2009 ·

See also:
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