Geolocation Problems in Arcgis for AutoCAD

[TC_MerrittsLand_Surveyors]

Hello there.

Recently we have been having problems with the ArcGIS for AutoCAD plugin. We are a surveying company, and mostly utilize the service to show imagery or tax maps in NAD 83 so we can keep our surveys in this coordinate system.

The problem lies with with locate tool in the navigate tab. When we try to use it, it spits back an error at us which says, "Unable to use this location service." I assume the locator would be using ArcGIS World Geocoder Connection, and I have tried to add this back as a GIS service but this didn't seem to solve the problem.

If it helps we are currently running AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 and have the 370 version of ArcGIS for AutoCAD. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. 

- Brendan

[Randy_Garcia · Accepted solution]

Hi Brendan,

ArcGIS Online switched to using https for its geolocation service and this broke the connections in ArcGIS for AutoCAD.

Since you are using version 370, follow these steps:

1. Open ArcGIS for AutoCAD
2. Add a server connection to the following server: https://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/services
3. Close ArcGIS for AutoCAD
4. Navigate in the window file explorer to the following location: C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Esri\ArcGIS for AutoCAD\1.0\Locators
5. open the .agl file with notepad
6. replace the url in the file with the following: https://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer
7. save the file

8. Open ArcGIS for AutoCAD and your locator should be working once again.

If you decide to upgrade to the 400 version of ArcGIS for AutoCAD use these steps:

1. Open the locate pane

2. Select the "Add Locator" button near the search box

3. add the following locator: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=305f2e55e67f4389bef269669fc2e284 

Let us know if you need anything else

-Randy

[TC_MerrittsLand_Surveyors]

Hello Randy,

Funny to reply to a post so long ago, but we are actually having another issue with the locator. 

Originally after doing the change you described, everything worked fine. However, as of yesterday we are now having an additional issue. Anytime we try to type out an address and click so it goes to locate said address, we the following error message: "Unable to connecte to a valid geometry source."

For reference, everybody in my office is still running version 370, as it was working well and did not want to disturb anything, and it was working perfectly fine not to long ago. 

Is this a problem on are end and what would the solution be? 

Thanks!

- Brendan