"Wait a minute," he muttered. "That bus is 14,000 feet long?"
"It says 320 units," Alex said.
"First," Sarah began, "We can't scale an image if we don't know the real size of something inside it. Since you can't measure the real world right now, we need a ruler."
Your image is now perfectly scaled.
Inserting a Google Earth image into AutoCAD is a powerful way to create site plans, context maps, or base files for landscape design. However, the biggest challenge is that the image itself has no inherent scale in CAD. If you simply drag and drop it, a 1,000-foot road might be only a few inches long on your screen.
