AW: [mapguide-users] Loading dwf without Mapguide Studio

Wed May 21 12:41:55 EDT 2008

Hi

In Autodesk Studio 2009 the option to load DWG as DWF  or SDF has gone, now 
you have to use SDF. Also in Studio 2009 I cannot see any way of loading DWF 
files. Is it me or has it changed form 2008

Regards

gary

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From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andy Morsell
Sent: 21 May 2008 16:59
To: 'MapGuide Users Mail List'
Subject: RE: AW: [mapguide-users] Loading dwf without Mapguide Studio

I agree that DWF is by far the better data type when trying to preserve the 
graphic fidelity of complex vector data, especially when representing things 
like floor plans with dimensions, symbols and labeling.  But, it lacks any 
real object intelligence, which is where SDF based data is much better.

When you load a DWF via Studio, it treats it as a "drawing" source. 
Meaning, it just copies the DWF into the repository and adds the necessary 
information to the database.  There is no option to convert to feature data. 
There is no DWF FDO provider, and I suspect that the reason for this is that 
the drawing service is already provided in the core of MapGuide Open Source.

It sounds like there might be some confusion around loading DWF versus DWG 
in Studio: when loading a DWG, you have the option to load it as drawing or 
feature data.  If as feature data, it converts to SDF.  If as drawing data, 
it converts to DWF.  I have found that publishing DWG to DWF from Autodesk 
Map and then loading the DWF files yields more flexible results in MapGuide. 
If you do it that way, the DWG layer information is carried forward and you 
can then filter your MGOS layer based on the DWF layers.  If you do it in 
Studio, the resultant DWF is just one big blob.  One thing to watch when 
publishing from Map is to make sure all of your pen weights are set to 0.00. 
Otherwise you will get the defaults and your DWF layers will look bad when 
zoomed in in MGOS.

In one of my DWF data sources, if I use the DescribeDrawing mapagent 
operation, here is the result.  So, Studio is doing quite a bit when loading 
the DWF, but that doesn't mean that this could not be done from outside of 
Studio.

<dwf:Manifest version="6.0" objectId="nt1vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA">
−
 <dwf:Interfaces>
<dwf:Interface objectId="715941D4-1AC2-4545-8185-BC40E053B551" name="ePlot" 
href="http://www.autodesk.com/viewers"/>
</dwf:Interfaces>
−
 <dwf:Properties>
<dwf:Property name="DWFToolkitVersion" value="7.2.1.116"/>
</dwf:Properties>
−
 <dwf:Sections>
−
 <dwf:Section type="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlotGlobal" 
name="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlotGlobal">
<dwf:Source provider="AutoCAD" href="RHSD_ATC_F1_2-Model.dwf"/>
−
 <dwf:Toc>
<dwf:Resource role="AutoCAD Drawing Set Data" mime="application/x-dsd" 
href="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlotGlobal\oN1vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA.dsd"/>
<dwf:Resource role="descriptor" mime="text/xml" 
href="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlotGlobal\descriptor.xml"/>
</dwf:Toc>
</dwf:Section>
−
 <dwf:Section type="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlot" 
name="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlot_n91vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA" 
title="RHSD_ATC_F1_2-Model">
<dwf:Source provider="AutoCAD" href="DWF204Temp.dwf"/>
−
 <dwf:Toc>
<dwf:Resource role="2d streaming graphics" mime="application/x-w2d" 
href="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlot_n91vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA\od1vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA.w2d"/>
<dwf:Resource role="AutoCAD Viewport Data" mime="application/x-dwg-state" 
href="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlot_n91vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA\ot1vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA.pia"/>
<dwf:Resource role="descriptor" mime="text/xml" 
href="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlot_n91vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA\descriptor.xml"/>
<dwf:Resource role="thumbnail" mime="image/png" 
href="com.autodesk.dwf.ePlot_n91vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA\o91vld7L4E67Z6G3FXkVWA.png"/>
</dwf:Toc>
</dwf:Section>
</dwf:Sections>
</dwf:Manifest>

Andy Morsell, P.E.
Spatial Integrators, Inc.
http://www.SpatialGIS.com

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[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephan HOLLAUS
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:40 AM
To: MapGuide Users Mail List
Subject: AW: AW: [mapguide-users] Loading dwf without Mapguide Studio

DWF drawing Source

mfg Stephan Hollaus

Ingenieur Studio Hollaus

Tel.:   +43 664 3387158

Fax.:  +43 664 77 3387159

www: http://www.hollaus.at <http://www.hollaus.at/>

Brandströmgasse 10

3100 St. Pölten

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Von: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Kenneth 
Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 13:16
An: MapGuide Users Mail List
Betreff: Re: AW: [mapguide-users] Loading dwf without Mapguide Studio

Interresting.

What is the provider type of the DWF feature source?

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S

Stephan HOLLAUS skrev:

i thought so too, but then I found the dwf File in the Folder 
"C:\Programme\MapGuideOpenSource2.0\Server\Repositories\Library\DataFiles\b70eab7a-ffff-ffff-8000-000c29c577cf" 
on der Mapguideserver. I found no matching sdf data and when the dwf is 
removed, mapguide doesn't display the data anymore, so that I believe there 
is a direct connection. The ohter thing is, that we use dwf because the very 
complex data(linetypes, Symbols..) and I can't believe, that this data is 
converted to sdf

mfg Stephan Hollaus

Ingenieur Studio Hollaus

Tel.:   +43 664 3387158

Fax.:  +43 664 77 3387159

www: http://www.hollaus.at <http://www.hollaus.at/>

Brandströmgasse 10

3100 St. Pölten

V55BCPWP

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Von: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Kenneth 
Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 12:05
An: MapGuide Users Mail List
Betreff: Re: [mapguide-users] Loading dwf without Mapguide Studio

Not that I know of.
There are no FDO providers capable of displaying DWF files:
http://fdo.osgeo.org/OSProviderOverviews.html

I belive Studio extracts the data from the DWF, and inserts it as SDF data 
in the server (but I have not tried it).
There exists a DWF toolkit, so you may do this manually:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=823771 
<http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=823771&siteID=123112> 
&siteID=123112

I'm guessing it will take some time to get it all to work.

If you can live with Studio only being avalible on the windows platform, it 
is
possible to call Studio via. .Net and perform the loads without manual 
intervention.

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S

Stephan HOLLAUS skrev:

Hi

Is there a way to load dwf Files without Mapguide Studio?

thx

mfg Stephan Hollaus

Ingenieur Studio Hollaus

Tel.:   +43 664 3387158

Fax.:  +43 664 77 3387159

www: http://www.hollaus.at <http://www.hollaus.at/>

Brandströmgasse 10

3100 St. Pölten

V55BCPWP

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