[Qgis-user] FILE .dwg and .cad

[Alex Mandel]

Careful reading of that page indicates the drive is "write-only" for
DWG. There is no read for DWG. It also is not supplied by default, must
be added like ECW and MrSid.

DXF on the other hand is read/write under the default GDAL.

At least according to what I see on those pages.

Thanks,
Alex

On 09/03/2010 03:06 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:
> I think read/write DWG and DXF formats is support in GDAL now, if I am
> not mistaken
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DxfDwg
> 
> http://mateusz.loskot.net/2006/01/03/writing-dwgdxf-files-with-ogr/
> 
> What it needs is QGIS plugin.
> 
> BTW, there is Dxf2shp (Dxf to shapefile) plugin available.
> 
> I hope this is clear enough to be undestood,  not to mention QGIS uses GDAL.
> 
> Noli
> 
> On 9/4/10, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> how to import to the data view from file extension dwg and extension cad
>>
>>
>> you cannot open the .dwg files, because the format is really a closed
>> one.
>>
>> Surprisingly there is another popular open source gis software that can
>> open this kind of files, maybe people that uses it can tell here how
>> this is possible.
>>
>> Don't know about .cad ones.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> -- Giovanni --
>>