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    Hi Andreas:<br>
    I had a chance to import some DWG files. Seems to be working nicely.
    I tried with some old (ACAD2000) version and some newer ones and all
    were correctly imported, with layer coloring, hatches, blocks, etc, 
    as far as I could see. <br>
    <br>
    Here are some issues that I noticed:<br>
    <ol>
      <li>There must be no "unusual" characters or spaces in name of the
        DWG file, or the full path to the file. The file name and full
        path need to be only ASCII.</li>
      <li>Drag from the Browser panel does not seem to work (Invalid
        layer reported from GDAL)</li>
      <li>The conversion to gpkg is somewhat slow (one file, 7MB took
        about 25 minutes to load, and grew to 56MB !) but there's no
        visual indication that it is progressing. DWG files with XREF's
        also take a long time. What you get is the "Not responding"
        message in the DWG Import window.  If you have patience :-) it
        eventually finishes successfully. It would be preferable to see
        some progress bar.<br>
      </li>
      <li>When opening the DWG Import window, the settings from the
        previous import are still there (even if you close and reopen
        QGIS). If you leave the same gpkg filename as the previous
        import, it is overwritten, without any warning. I think it would
        be better to have both text boxes, "Geopackage" and  "Drawing",
        <b>empty</b> every time the window opens. And an overwrite
        warning would also be good. <br>
      </li>
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    <p>Thanks for your work on this!</p>
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    <p>Regards,</p>
    <p>Micha<br>
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    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/08/2018 17:18, Boaz Bar Ilan
      wrote:<br>
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        <div dir="ltr">hi</div>
        <div dir="ltr">thanks</div>
        <div dir="ltr">I didn't succeed importing</div>
        <div dir="ltr"> I followed the instructions</div>
        <div dir="ltr">it seems that the created geopackage file is not
          correct</div>
        <div dir="ltr">is there accurate instruction ?</div>
        <div dir="ltr">thanks</div>
        <div dir="ltr">boaz</div>
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          <div dir="ltr">2018-08-02 15:53 GMT+03:00 Andreas Neumann <span
              dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net"
                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">a.neumann@carto.net</a>></span>:</div>
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              <p>Hi Micha,</p>
              <p>This is already implemeted quite a long time ago. You
                have to use Menu "Project" --> "Import/Export" -->
                "Import Layers from DWG/DXF".</p>
              <p>What it does: it imports the DWG/DXF into a geopackage
                and tries to keep styling and labeling as good as
                possible. DXF blocks are converted to SVGs. It should
                work fine in general, but of course there can be issues.</p>
              <p>The major thing I am still missing is an easy way to
                georeference vectors in QGIS, since many DWG/DXFs use a
                local coordinate system.</p>
              <p>Could you please report back if it works fine for you?</p>
              <p>Greetings,<br>
                Andreas</p>
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                  <p>On 2018-08-02 14:43, Micha Silver wrote:</p>
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                  <div class="h5"> Over the years the question of
                    reading DWG format files has come up [1]. And there
                    was even a crowd funding campaign some years ago [2]
                    . Andreas' initial design requirements document [3]
                    is still sitting on google docs.<br>
                    Does anyone have some update on this?<br>
                    <br>
                    Thanks,<br>
                    Micha<br>
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                    [1] <a
                      class="m_799128787372017020moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2016-October/038043.html"
                      target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/qgis-user/2016-<wbr>October/038043.html</a>
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                    [2] <a
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href="https://blog.qgis.org/2015/12/08/crowd-funding-project-for-reading-cad-documents-in-qgis/"
                      target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">https://blog.qgis.org/2015/12/<wbr>08/crowd-funding-project-for-<wbr>reading-cad-documents-in-qgis/</a><br>
                    [3] <a
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href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJv1lwd5TnWdV-fTuW7g5ts1O8r3vb46xYeAIQ_BwGw/edit"
                      target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>document/d/1NJv1lwd5TnWdV-<wbr>fTuW7g5ts1O8r3vb46xYeAIQ_BwGw/<wbr>edit</a><br>
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Ben Gurion Univ.
Sde Boker, Remote Sensing Lab
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