[Qgis-user] how to georeferenced an autocad .dxf file?

[jr.morreale at enoreth.net]

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:50:39 +0000, M.E.Dodd wrote:
> I have a building and roads plan done in a cad package and want to
> accurately georeference it and deal with it in qgis.  I can choose
> fixed points on the .dxf file and get accurate gps readings for these
> points but am wondering how to do the conversion in qgis?  If it were
> a raster image then it would be a simple matter of georeferencing the
> image but I want to keep the vector format so that its possible to
> edit and layer with other maps of the area.

I do this kind of work directly in the CAD app where you can copy and 
paste to coordinate, then all the features are correctly georeferenced 
and I only have to deal with the import process and apply the 
corresponding projection.