Autocad — To Google Earth Pro

She opened Google Earth Pro. The familiar blue marble spun. She zoomed into the Andes, past the white peaks and green valleys, until the satellite imagery resolved into the specific, folded canyon. She dragged the new KMZ file into the "Places" pane.

Maya smiled and closed her laptop. She looked out her window at the messy, un-drafted, un-layered real world outside. It had no OSNAP, no grid, no clean properties palette. It was chaotic. autocad to google earth pro

Maya held her breath. She clicked the "Sunlight" tool in Google Earth Pro and set the time to 6:15 AM, local time, June solstice. She opened Google Earth Pro

She sent the file with a single line in the email: Fly there. Look east at dawn. She dragged the new KMZ file into the "Places" pane

She took a screenshot. Then another. She orbited the camera, watching her blue lines float over the green and brown valleys. The client had asked to see the sunrise hit the pool. He didn't know that in AutoCAD, the sun is just a vector in the sky. But in Google Earth Pro, it was a star.