Lena, a CAD technician. The Request: The City Planner wants a map showing "Urban Heat Stress vs. Tree Canopy Age" for a $50M grant proposal. They don't have GIS licenses; they only have AutoCAD.
This is a narrative-driven guide and conceptual framework for developing a inside AutoCAD. Since AutoCAD is not a traditional GIS (like ArcGIS or QGIS), the story here is about overcoming limitations to turn raw CAD data into a visual narrative. thematic maps autocad
Lena saves the file: City_Climate_Diagnostic_vFINAL.dwg You don't need expensive GIS software to tell a spatial story. AutoCAD is a blind cartographer. You must feed it data via links, control it via layers, and interpret it via transparency. Lena, a CAD technician
Lena presents the DWG and a PDF.