Using one of those coordinate systems will provide you with ‘grid coordinates’ in meters based on your submitted photographs.
You must convert all of your foot numbers into meters if you must work in feet using a coordinate system that employs meters.
You are forced to use a system that utilizes meters because the drawing units in modelspace will inherit or adopt the units of the "Assigned Coordinate System."
Finally, you have marked UTM84-42S in your uploaded image, auto.jpg3.jpg. That coordinate system should not be used! utilize UTM84-42N instead of UTM coordinates if you choose to utilize them.
By the sounds of it, you will require aerials? The materials you can access for free depend on where you are working.
In this activity, you will open AutoCAD Civil 3D and import an aerial image from Google Earth.
The Google Earth image appears in the drawing as a grayscale image object when it is loaded into AutoCAD Civil 3D.
The drawing’s linear units and the image’s latitude and longitude extents are used to scale the picture.
An entirely new render material is made from the image and applied to the surface when the image is draped over it.
You can use Autodesk Raster Design to prepare images from other sources if you don’t want to obtain your surface image from Google Earth.
We’ll next discover whether AutoCAD can import Google Maps.
Is Google Maps compatible with AutoCAD?
Not right away. To open and potentially change the Google map in AutoCAD, you must first convert it to a DWG file type.
GOOGLE MAPS TO AUTOCAD CONVERT HOW DO I DO THAT?
You must follow the instructions in the section above titled "Part 2: Using Scan2CAD to convert the Google Maps file into a workable vector file" in order to convert Google Maps into an AutoCAD readable file. When it comes to saving the generated vector file, you can choose to save it as a DWG or DXF file, which will allow it to be opened by any DWG viewer, including AutoCAD.
IN AUTOCAD, HOW DO I OVERLAY GOOGLE MAPS?
Under the "Reference Type" part of the "Attach External Reference" menu in AutoCAD, you can choose to overlay (including Google maps overlays) or attach an External reference (xrefs).
IN AUTOCAD, HOW CAN GOOGLE MAPS BE SCALED?
You must scale the Google maps to match the real site size in model space, where one foot equals one foot, after transferring them from Google maps to AutoCAD.
How do I make a drawing off of a Google map?
You have two options for turning a Google map into a drawing: either use Scan2CAD to transform the Google Maps file into a functional vector file, as explained in the sections above, or export an appropriate raster image of the map from Google Maps.
We’ll then find out if Google Earth and CAD-Earth are compatible.
Launch the CAD program. CAD-Earth ought to show up in the ribbon or toolbar. Additionally, a shortcut to it will appear on your Windows desktop.
There is a 500 point cap on the CAD-Earth Demo Version when importing a terrain mesh from Google EarthTM. You can import or export a maximum of 10 objects into Google EarthTM. Additionally, ‘CAD-Earth Demo Version’ text watermark lines are present in all pictures that are imported or exported into Google EarthTM.
Other than what is required to run your CAD program as efficiently as possible, CAD-Earth doesn’t require any further requirements (please review your instructions). You must install Google EarthTM Free or Pro version 7.3.2 64-bit on your PC.
You may import and export objects and photos into Google EarthTM with CAD-Earth Basic. You may also draw contour lines, build cross sections or profiles, and import terrain configurations from Google EarthTM with CAD-Earth Plus. Slope zone analysis is another function that CAD-Earth Plus offers, among many other things.
The most comprehensive choice is CAD-Earth Premium, which offers advanced mesh options, 4D animation, and both Basic and Plus commands.