What step am I missing during georeferencing?

[Christiaan]

What step am I missing during georeferencing if georeferenced files I import are rotated slightly like this with north not aligning with straight up the page.

 

[Tom W.]

If you had a non-zero Angle to True North value in the Document Georeferencing that would explain it but your compass suggests it's set to zero... 🤷‍♂️ (worth double checking though in case there's a glitch with the compass...?).

[Christiaan]

Yeah that's all set to zero. 

 

Kinda wondered if it might have something to do with my template being made in Vectorworks with a UK serial, but this georeferenced location being in New Zealand, but I can't imagine what. The coordinate system is set correctly to NZGD2000.

[Christiaan]

1. Create new file from blank document

2. Set Coordinate System to use NZGD2000 (File > Document Settings > Geoferencing...)

3. Uncheck the "Location and orientation of the internal origin" option.

4. Import attached file with "This file contains georeferenced geometry" option checked.

 

Imported plan looks like this?!

georeferenced-geometry.dwg

[Tom W.]

When you import the DWG into a new blank file with 'This file contains georeferenced geometry' disabled it still comes in rotated so does that not suggest the source material is rotated...? Are the streets/houses definitely rotated when compared with the Geoimage underlay...?

[Christiaan]

Good point, but If I generate a PDF from the same source, it's oriented correctly as expected (see attached). And if I turn on Geoimage, it's also unexpectedly rotated.

 

AGS Report.pdf

[Christiaan]

Changing the angle to true north to -2.49º in the georefencing settings seems to resolve the problem.

But is this a valid way to resolve it?