[Qgis-user] OGR and DWG

[Zoltan Szecsei]

Ah, on the gdal/ogr website it says that "most" dwg formats are readable 
- Now that you mention the teigha word, I've re-read the page: 
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_dwg.html

Thanks for the wake-up call.
Regards,
Zoltan

On 2014/05/22 11:35, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No - there is no chance. Not supported. DWG is a closed format without
> documentation. Your only chance is to install the Teigha library and
> recompile OGR to use Teigha to read DWG (http://www.opendesign.com/).
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
> Am 22.05.2014 09:30, schrieb Zoltan Szecsei:
>> Hi,
>> I'm wanting to convert a DWG file to (almost) anything.
>> Neither QGIS nor ogrinfo will open it.
>>
>> On Ubuntu 14.04 ogrinfo --version returns  GDAL 1.10.1 2013/08/26
>>
>> Will getting a newer version help, or what else can I try?
>>
>> Thanks & regards,
>> Zoltan
>>
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