Autocad Import Kml Today

The cursor spun. A progress bar inched forward. Then, the screen refreshed.

"It's on Google Earth," Mr. Verona had chirped over the phone. "I drew the trails, the lodge, and the helipad right on the satellite image. Just… put it into your CAD thing, okay?" autocad import kml

The KML—Keyhole Markup Language—was a creature of the sky. It lived in the curved, spherical world of Google Earth, where lines were drawn on a globe and "straight" was an illusion. AutoCAD lived on the flat, rational Cartesian plane of X and Y. Converting one to the other was like ironing a crumpled map of the world. Something always got stretched. The cursor spun