“Hank, I have a DWG, but it’s exploded. Every panel is four lines.”
The drawing appeared exactly where it should be, centered in the Texas panhandle. The Panels layer contained clean, closed polylines—every one a rectangle. The Cables layer held smooth, continuous polylines, not shattered fragments. The Exclusion layer had hatched polygons. Even the text labels for each inverter pad had come through as actual text objects. open kml in autocad
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. “Hank, I have a DWG, but it’s exploded