Working in UK Ordnance Survey grid

ahujeffy

Hello

New to SU and can't find anything on this on these forums or wider web search.

Does anyone have any tips for working within the co-ordinate system of the UK Ordnance Survey grid? Broadly, I am wondering:

if there is a plug-in, or workflow, or maybe tips for creating a template so that you are working in a real co-ordinate system?
is there anything to translate accurately between the google earth/google maps location feature in SU, which works to Lat/Long, to the national grid (plugin, workaround, etc.)?
once in a geo-referenced space, how to accurately position a 3rd party SU model within that space?

I am guessing part of the answer may be setting up a template to make SU to work within a co-ordinate system, but not sure. Anyone with any experience of this, or any tips or general advice or thoughts would be much appreciated.

AJ

rv1974

Generally 3d software doesn't work well with objects located far away from the file’s origin. So it's a good idea not to be a surveys slave and place/ rotate in maps feely in accordance to your needs. If its really demanded, you could place your model on national coordinates in the final stage though.

TIG

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Let's you keep your model sensisbly near to the ORIGIN, and then specify the ORIGIN as a certain XYZ datum value, and you can then create tags which interpret their selected point, and display it relating to that datum.
It works in various units and Lat/Long, but not directly in OS grid-references...

ahujeffy

Thank you for the replies, and sorry for the slow response. Co-ords to datum plugin works well.