She deleted the DXF and went to Plan B:
Her phone buzzed. It was Leo, the project manager. open kml in autocad
She found a website called “KML2CAD Pro.” It promised “one-click conversion with attribute preservation.” She uploaded her KML. The site churned for thirty seconds and asked for $49 to download the result. SolaraTech had a budget. She paid with a corporate card. She deleted the DXF and went to Plan B: Her phone buzzed
She typed SCALE in AutoCAD. Selected all. Base point: 0,0. Scale factor: 3.28084 . The entire solar farm expanded to the correct size. She typed UNITS and set the insertion scale to "Feet." The site churned for thirty seconds and asked
The resulting DWG arrived by email. She opened it. It was… better. The scale was correct. The polygons were at the right coordinates. But now, a new horror emerged: Every polygon was no longer a single object. It was a collection of individual lines and arcs. The solar panel arrays—each a perfect rectangle in the KML—were now four separate lines. There were 5,000 panel arrays. That meant 20,000 individual line segments. The file size ballooned to 450 megabytes. AutoCAD began to lag.
“How long?” he asked.