[GRASSLIST:1562] Re: (no subject)

[Felipe G. Nievinski]

AFAIK, DXF format does not support attributes, only the objects' geometry.
(Truly, its 'blocks' have attributes, but I would not recommend you to use
it.)

When I need to import geodata in AutoCAD Map, usually I export to Shape
files, wich works fine.

(AutoCAD Map's DWG file format has an extension to store attributes (called
Object Data), but I don't know any non-Autodesk software that supports it -
not even FME from Safe Software.


Hope this helps.

Regards,
Felipe Nievinski.

----- Original Message -----
From: <sturm at datacomm.ch>
To: <grasslist at baylor.edu>
Cc: <neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: [GRASSLIST:1557] (no subject)


>
>
> >Probably
> >d.vect.cats help
>
> may I intrude in the discussion?
> Thanks Markus, I was also looking for this command. But I have a further
question
> concerning attributes in vectors... I want to export a vector to the DXF
format
> in order to get the attributes in AutoCad. However this works fine and
without
> a hitch with arcs.
> But when converting a site file to a vector (in order to have the site
attributes
> in the vector layer), I saw that the attributes are missing. Although the
DXF
> file seems to contain the correct point information (introduced by a P,
and
> then followed by the corner coordinates of the point), there were no
atrributes
> associated with the points.
>
> How can I translate a site file to a vector and the export it correctly to
the
> DXF format, without loosing the attributes?
>
> Cheers
> --
> Bernhard Sturm
> CDE, University of Berne - Switzerland
>