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    World Coordinate System

    The World Coordinate System (WCS) is the “reference” coordinate system. The WCS is a fixed coordinate system; all other coordinate systems are defined relative to the WCS. This is the coordinate system in which all of the model coordinate geometry has been placed according to its block insert. If any of the model coordinate geometry was not included in a block insert, then the model and world coordinates are identical.

    Parent topic: Transformations

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