Then, she tried the import again, but this time she used and chose the KML as a source. A dialog box appeared—a wise, wrinkled old wizard compared to the brute force of before. She told AutoCAD to use the current geographic coordinate system. She told it to interpret lines as polylines and polygons as closed boundaries.
Elias looked at the donut. He took a bite. It tasted like victory. autocad import kml
The lines appeared. They were sharp, precise, and—most importantly—matched the grid lines of his existing site base map perfectly. Then, she tried the import again, but this
Next, he selected the terrain contours that had also come in with the KML. They were on a layer named Layer 1 , Layer 2 , etc.—useless names. She told it to interpret lines as polylines
Elias, a senior drafter with fifteen years of experience, was a man of precision. He liked his lines orthogonal, his layers frozen, and his coordinates in a rigid Cartesian plane. KML—Keyhole Markup Language—was the language of Google Earth. It was fluid, spherical, and messy. It was the antithesis of AutoCAD.