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Need help figuring out why Trimble maps is telling me to verify the coordinate system correctly

  • 1.  Need help figuring out why Trimble maps is telling me to verify the coordinate system correctly

    Posted 10-14-2025 13:24

    Good afternoon all

    I have an autocad drawing from my surveyor in Costa Rica (I live in the United States). When I import the cad file into trimble and change the coordinate system to the correct settings. Trimble maps still can't verify the coordinate system correctly. I'm not sure what I am doing incorrectly... My co-worker tried it in Autocad and everything worked perfectly fine. Below is a screenshot of my coordinate system setting in TBC and the coordinate system settings in Autocad. Any help would be wonderful! Thank you

    TBC

    Autocad 


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    Robert Fox
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  • 2.  RE: Need help figuring out why Trimble maps is telling me to verify the coordinate system correctly

    Posted 10-14-2025 13:51
    Edited by Ronny Schneider 10-14-2025 14:04

    Make sure that you don't have elements in your CAD file that are far away from your project area. TBC refuses to load the map if there are entities outside of the system boundary.

    Blocks or sheet frames close to 0,0 are a candidate for this.

    Zoom to drawing extends and press CTRL-A to select everything. Through the highlighting it's easier to see if there are widespread entities.


    Unlikely that it is the issue in your case, but FYI have a look at my post #13 here, 
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    Ronny Schneider
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  • 3.  RE: Need help figuring out why Trimble maps is telling me to verify the coordinate system correctly

    Posted 10-15-2025 10:15

    Thank you for the help! I'm going try both methods and hopefully it fixes the issue. 



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    Robert Fox
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