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Hi Micha,<br>
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That is interesting - we invested a lot in the DXF export
capabilities of QGIS. Once this is finished I am pretty sure we will
also look to improve the situation regarding the import.<br>
<br>
Do you think import of DXF is enough or do we also need DWG support?
If so, the best bet would probably be the Teigha library from the
Open Design Alliance
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha">https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha</a>), which isn't
available for free - but it is the library most other GIS (eg. ESRI,
Intergraph) and CAD (eg. Bentley, Bricscad, etc.) are using. We
would have to pay a membership fee, but it allows us to redistribute
the library with the software. Membership in the consortium is
affordable in my opinion.<br>
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What are your thoughts on this? Would you also be available to help
with a crowd-funding effort? Do you see options besides Teigha?<br>
<br>
Andreas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15.06.2015 08:57, Micha Silver
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/15/2015 09:23 AM, Bernhard
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<blockquote cite="mid:557E6F56.2040805@jena.de" type="cite">Hi
Joseph, <br>
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could you elaborate why "it would be unrealistic to say we <br>
could ever be a 100% QGIS"? I am curious because I lost contact
with ESRI products a couple years ago. <br>
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From our point of view, we need support for dwg. That side of
vendor lock-in is, unfortunately, even stronger that the ties to
ESRI. So we stay with Arc* not because of the GIS capabilites, but
more or less only because of the ability to read Autocad plans and
surveys.<br>
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