Add Location Imagery Not Aligned With Axis

[eneroth3]

Found the answer in another thread. Apparently the north from terrain is true north (otherwise the imagery used on Google Maps and Google Earth line up properly). The green axis is however not true north! It represents the UTM grid north which is the vector that would be true north in the middle of each cell. The closer to the grid lines you get the more it deviates from true north.

Solar North & Geolocation

I know that the default North location is aligned with the green axis. (I’m using the Solar North plugin to see this.) [image] But when you geo-locate and import Google Earth terrain, the North direction changes depending upon where you’ve geolocated the model on earth. In this example, I chose Boston, MA and you can see the North direction has been adjusted. Also, notice how the imported image is rotated slightly to match the new North orientation, but the group it is contained in is aligned …