[gdal-dev] Re: DXF reader/writer plans?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Tue Mar 25 13:45:25 EDT 2008


Gennady Khokhorin wrote:
> Did try this approach, got an error message running
> ogr2ogr.exe :  
> Unable to open datasource `D:\....dxf' with the following drivers.
> ...
>   -> DWG
>   -> DXF
> 
> DXF was r12 acad drawing (lowest version).
> Have to try again with a newest GDAL 1.5.1

Gennady,

The DXFDWG driver is write-only and so presumably not of much use for
your needs.  The driver could, in theory, be extended to read the files
using the DWGdirect library but it would be quite an effort and the
licensing is sufficiently restrictive on the DWGdirect library that I
think it would have limited value to the world.

Best regards,
-- 
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org



More information about the gdal-dev mailing list