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Hello Even,</div>
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It makes sense that the driver is proprietary, but the documentation page:</div>
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<a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/dwg.html" id="LPlnk693911">https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/dwg.html</a><br>
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DWG_INLINE_BLOCKS¶. The default behavior is for block references to be expanded with the geometry of the block they reference. However, if the DWG_INLINE_BLOCKS configuration option is set to the value FALSE, then the behavior is different as described here.</div>
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makes no mention of this fact.</div>
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Sadly, I am working with some clients who only use dwg, and I need the data in json, and autoCad doesn't use GDAL, so can't export to json.</div>
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The work-around I have found is to ask the client to export the file as dxf, but it has been extremely difficult to get them to give me dxf files, and I don't know if the dxf is trimming information.</div>
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I would rather pay for a driver to convert gdal files to json than pay for autoCad, especially since autoCad would only be used to convert files.</div>
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What is the process for including the gdal driver in the build? Is there a newbie tutorial on how to build gdal from source?</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 16, 2019 1:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org <gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Alan Snow <alansnow21@gmail.com>; Brandon Biggs <brandon.biggs@ski.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] Adding The DWG Driver to ogr2ogr?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On mardi 15 octobre 2019 19:06:15 CEST Alan Snow wrote:<br>
> Hi Brandon.<br>
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> I would recommend opening up an issue on the conda-forge feedstock:<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/conda-forge/gdal-feedstock">https://github.com/conda-forge/gdal-feedstock</a><br>
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Do you realize that the DWG driver requires a proprietary (& non-gratis) SDK ?<br>
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The alternative is the CAD driver (<a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/cad.html">https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/cad.html</a>)
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but it probably doesn't support everything of the DWG one<br>
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