# Object's position differ from its centroid's coordinates

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**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/objects-position-differ-from-its-centroids-coordinates/2262 "2020-01-14T17:13:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![yasser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.buildingsmart.org/yasser/32/395_2.png) [@yasser](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/yasser)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/objects-position-differ-from-its-centroids-coordinates/2262/3 "2020-01-15T08:50:17Z")

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Hi @Moult , here I share my IFC file, the screenshot shows four blocks of elements I have created, respectively starting at at coordinates (0, 0, 0), (0, 40, 0), (40, 0, 0) and (40, 40, 0) but if you check the distance between them it’s going to be 120 as mentioned before.

 ![2020-01-15 09_39_15-BIM Vision](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/buildingsmart1/original/1X/cea13baf9a96d445fb0f8bb4e61febaae865cd38.png)  
[geo\_enriched\_last.ifc](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/uploads/short-url/qNaMPiBC4mcN24j01ncmDQcF52E.ifc) (563.8 KB)

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