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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.
Her phone buzzed. It was Leo, the project manager. open kml in autocad
She saved the file: SolarArray_CAD_Ready.dwg . The resulting DWG arrived by email
Trembling, she opened it in AutoCAD.
Maya Chen was a land development consultant, and she was three hours behind schedule. The client, a massive renewable energy developer called SolaraTech, had just sent her the final approved layout for a 200-megawatt solar farm. The file wasn't a DWG, a DXF, or even a PDF. It was a KML file—a Google Earth map, full of placemarks, polygons, and paths that snaked across 1,200 acres of former ranch land in West Texas. The scale was correct
She deleted the DXF and went to Plan B: