[GRASSLIST:400] Re: v.in.dxf

[Radim Blazek]

On 3/25/06, Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've committed v.in.dxf in CVS and it now supports z coordinate import, which
> means v.in.dxf3d is not required to build a 3d vector file.  The label import
> feature in the previous version is not yet supported.

        fclose(layers[count].Map->dig_fp.file);
        layers[count].Map->dig_fp.file =
            G_fopen_modify(buf, GRASS_VECT_COOR_ELEMENT);

What was the intention?
BTW, vector structure members should never be accessed directly
in modules, use Vect_ functions.

> Don't forget to run v.build after v.in.dxf.

I see Vect_build(layers[count].Map, stderr) in create_layers.c
and that builds topology.


It seems that you import each DXF layer as separate vector map?
I think that it would be better to import everything in one map
with more layers. You can assign layer to each line with cat.

   Vect_cat_set (Cats, layer_number, category );

Note that DWG/DXF files usually contain many layers, it is realy impractical
to import a single DXF as 60 GRASS maps.
It would also simplify the v.in.dxf code as you don't need to handle many
vector maps.


Radim


> In addition, v.surf.idw can read in z values from a 3d
> vector.
>
> Huidae Cho
>
>