WinTopo Freeware outputs the drawing in negative Y-axis coordinates.
This is because of the convention of raster images having the TOP
left corner as coodinate 0,0 and positive Y being downwards.
Conversely, vector drawings tend to have the the positive Y going
upwards. So keeping the top left corner as coodinate 0,0 makes the
vector drawing appear just below the zero x-axis line.

WinTopo Pro does not exhibit this peculiarity, as the coordinates are
automatically adjusted to have coordinate 0,0 at the BOTTOM left
corner. Plus, there is a Georefernce function so that you can easily
locate the drawing anywhere you want it.

From: the WinTopo Support Team

--- In wintopo@yahoogroups.com, "trikinimaster" <two@w...> wrote:
> Need to add to this. Is there a setting in Wintopo to locate the
> drawing when you open the output in ACAD.
>
> For some reason it gives me a negative quadrant. Even if by
multiple
> steps I get to a 0,0 left corner and resize the paper the first
time I
> zoom in and then go to all to restore it goes back to the negative
> quadrant
>