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

[flavio rigolon]

2012/2/29 M.E.Dodd <m.e.dodd at open.ac.uk>:
> 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.
>

Hi,
 you can convert the DXF into SHP file via the d2s. Then (I did
similar operation you ask a few months ago) you can move and rotate
the vector using the Vector Affine Transformation tool.

hth
flavio
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