[postgis-users] Open Source .DWG to .SHP converter?

[Milo van der Linden]

What CAD software are you using? Because if the software can export to 
DGN (Microstation) Ogr2ogr would do the trick to directly import it into 
postGIS.

You can find ogr2ogr in the FWTools, instructions are at: 
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/

Jeshua Lacock schreef:
>
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:06 AM, kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> I'm going to convert .SHP to .DWG files, which in turn
>> will be converted to postGIS. There is an util named
>> CAD2Shape
>> (http://www.rockware.com/product/pricing.php?id=73)
>> that converts DWG to SHP, but the price is quite
>> prohibitive.
>
> Kresh,
>
> I wonder why you would not just go from shp to PostGIS with the 
> shp2pgsql command?
>
>> Is there any open source util to convert .DWG to .SHP?
>> Thanks.
>
> I personally don't know of one, however, I believe GRASS GIS can open 
> a shp file and write to a dwg file.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeshua Lacock
> Founder/Programmer
> 3DTOPO Incorporated
> <http://3DTOPO.com>
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