Open QGIS and drag your KML file directly into the workspace. Right-click the KML layer in the .
Hey Elias, thanks for the update. Actually, the survey team just realized they forgot to send the KMZ of the drainage area. Can you add that in real quick? It shouldn't take long.
But he couldn't work like this. He needed it in his local coordinate system. He opened the ribbon and looked for the Reposition commands.
He used the LAYWALK command to isolate the layers one by one. Layer 1: Vegetation polygons. Delete. Layer 2: Building footprints. Keep, but rename to 'EX-BLDG'. Layer 5: Path Centerline. Jackpot.
It worked.
Suddenly, the data converted from GIS features to native AutoCAD entities. But now came the cleanup. The KML had imported text as MText with strange formatting, and the path lines were 3D polylines with vertices every three meters—a remnant of the satellite data.
