Hi everyone! We’re opening up an early CRS (Coordinate Reference System) geolocation workflow in SketchUp Labs, and we’d love to invite the community to try it out. CRS is a more accurate way to place your model in real-world coordinates, particularly useful for civil, survey, and GIS-related work…

Wow that’s great and about time, hopefully import/export isn’t far behind.

There’s obviously a lot of valuable work gone into this, but what are we testing? I click on the CRS edit, select a survey system, enter three values and then hit a brick wall as the values can’t be applied to the model, the only option is [CANCEL]. On reopening the Add Location window, the content…

Sounds like you just tested and reported an error. Welcome to software testing :smiley:

@DGSketcher thanks for reporting the pop-up breaking the layout, I’ve alerted the team. With regards to not being able to proceed, the Easting/Northing values need to be valid inside the CRS, e.g.: [Screenshot 2026-01-07 at 11.59.24]

I have been referencing Lats & Longs for some time, but I had missed the CRS was using the localised grid reference system and they have range limits. My mistake was assuming the Lats & Longs mapped directly to the CRS. I have entered some recent surveyors coordinates from a project and they appear…

[image] DGSketcher: I have entered some recent surveyors coordinates from a project and they appear to land at the correct point. Good to hear, thanks! [image] DGSketcher: I assume we are reliant on our Surveyors to provide these values and also confirm the applied system? Yes you can…

[image] pablo_prats: Coordinate Reference System Hi @pablo_prats , I don’t see an option to choose CRS, am I missing something? [image]

[image] Nazz78: I don’t see an option to choose CRS [img-09b]

Hi @Nazz78 thanks for the heads up! yep, as @mihai.s posted below, you should click in the method dropdown where it says address, and then you’ll find Coordinare Reference System there. Let me know if you have any issues

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