<div>An FDO for DWG is an excellent idea as DWGs are currently imported as dumb images unless the drawing entities are classified. In my case a large extra step as 1.) all my blocks need to be modified to record their info as object data via some yet-to-be-created-by-us interface and B.) the extensive legacy entitiy data (as in vlax-ldata-get) we use for engineering work does would need to be completely re-written via .net and III.) we would need to purchase/learn something like visual studio.</div>
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<div>It would seem a market penetrating step on Autodesk's part to make the use of DWG data from blocks and ldata available to the less sophisticated programmers (like me) to get better penetration of the MGE product right out of the box. Not everyone is a programmer, municipality or has deep pockets.</div>
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<div>Just my $0.02 worth...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:32 AM, GordonL <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordon.luckett@arrowgeomatics.com">gordon.luckett@arrowgeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>DWG files contain all sorts of information including attribute (Object Data<br>and Link Templates) and amazing symbology (Leaders, Dimensions and Blocks) -<br>
these items do not easily move into MapGuide..<br><br>It would be great if there was an FDO Provider for DWG to harvest both<br>attribute and visual data so we did not need to use DWF files at all.<br><br>At the very least be able to get the attribute data out of the DWG into the<br>
SDF (Object Data/Link Template) and blocks as part of the Symbol Library<br>(not the cumbersome Symbol Definition XMLs)<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>--<br>View this message in context: <a href="http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/DWF-s-display-poorly-tp5321851p5341955.html" target="_blank">http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/DWF-s-display-poorly-tp5321851p5341955.html</a><br>
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