[GRASS-dev] Re: New DWG import module

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
<pitanga at members.fsf.org> wrote:
> There are some preliminary results on the module I've been writing. It
> is a DWG file (http://www.naval.com/drawings/dwg/PRA430d.dwg - there's
> a PDF too) that we've been using with testSVG, rendered with GRASS's
> nviz module.

(somewhat late answer)
Congratulations to your first results!

> I think that it looks a bit aliased, maybe because GRASS
> is tuned for larger orders of magnitude (kilometers) by default, and
> not circuit boards (centimeters) -- I'm just wondering, I'm not a
> GRASS user nor a SIG specialist. I need to test it with a proper DWG
> file or change some configurations.

No, GRASS can work with any unit, also nanometers if you want.
The problem must be elsewhere.
For inspection, you can use v.out.ascii to see the vectors in ASCII.

> I'll submit it as soon as I get the INSERTs and BLOCKs working.
>
> Rodrigo.

Markus