She’d scoffed. AutoCAD was truth. Google Earth was a quilt of satellite photos stitched together by algorithms, full of warped textures and vertical exaggeration. Putting one into the other was like stapling a blueprint to a cloud.
"I don't want to see your plans, Maya," he’d said, pushing a pair of cheap VR goggles across the table. "I want to stand on the ridge and see the sunrise hit the infinity pool. Can you put your AutoCAD into Google Earth?" autocad to google earth pro
For three weeks, Maya became a cartographer. She stripped her massive DWG file down to its skeleton: just the site boundary, the building footprints, and the access road. She used the GEOGRAPHICLOCATION command, feeding in the exact lat/long of the Andean valley. AutoCAD hummed, accepted the coordinates, and drew a faint, glowing north arrow. Step one was done. She’d scoffed