His task was simple on paper but a nightmare in practice: he had to document 40 kilometers of a new gas pipeline. Specifically, he had to generate a "Scheme of Placement of Objects" (Схема размещения объектов) for every single valve, access road, and temporary storage shed that fell outside the main government-allocated land plot.
automatically snapped boundaries to the legal limits of the neighboring plots.
Each object needed its own precise coordinates, a unique boundary, and a standardized PDF report. In AutoCAD, drawing each boundary by hand and extracting the X and Y coordinates into a table was soul-crushing work. One slip of the mouse, and a valve would be "placed" in the middle of a protected lake, triggering a massive fine.
extracted the geodetic coordinates for every vertex.
Then, Alex remembered a plugin his mentor had mentioned—the .
