[Qgis-user] FILE .dwg and .cad

[Alex Mandel]

Good find, looks like that one has closed development and refers people
now to http://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/

I suggest checking the GDAL tickets to see if there is something along
these lines and if not put in an enhancement ticket to see if someone
can get gdal to use this library.

Thanks,
Alex

On 09/03/2010 06:08 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:
> Alex, thanks for the correction.
> 
> This is a library to allow reading data from a DWG file.
> http://libdwg.sourceforge.net/en/
> 
> Noli
> 
> On 9/4/10, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> Careful reading of that page indicates the drive is "write-only" for
>> DWG. There is no read for DWG. It also is not supplied by default, must
>> be added like ECW and MrSid.
>>
>> DXF on the other hand is read/write under the default GDAL.
>>
>> At least according to what I see on those pages.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> On 09/03/2010 03:06 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:
>>> I think read/write DWG and DXF formats is support in GDAL now, if I am
>>> not mistaken
>>>
>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DxfDwg
>>>
>>> http://mateusz.loskot.net/2006/01/03/writing-dwgdxf-files-with-ogr/
>>>
>>> What it needs is QGIS plugin.
>>>
>>> BTW, there is Dxf2shp (Dxf to shapefile) plugin available.
>>>
>>> I hope this is clear enough to be undestood,  not to mention QGIS uses
>>> GDAL.
>>>
>>> Noli
>>>
>>> On 9/4/10, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>> how to import to the data view from file extension dwg and extension cad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> you cannot open the .dwg files, because the format is really a closed
>>>> one.
>>>>
>>>> Surprisingly there is another popular open source gis software that can
>>>> open this kind of files, maybe people that uses it can tell here how
>>>> this is possible.
>>>>
>>>> Don't know about .cad ones.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> -- Giovanni --
>>>>
>>
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