>> But surely the libredwg people would love to receive feedback or >> encouragements, so don't hesitate to have a look there.
Sure! We definitely need people to test with their files, since every file can potentially have a structure that we haven't tested before. >> I'm actually wondering if those guys are not subscribed to this list... Yes, I am =] > I was wondering whether they are aware of the efforts in Blender-world > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.4/Py/Scripts/Import/DXF-3D > > where a lot of work has been done on importing dxf, assuming that anyone > generating dwg can also generate dxf. And - in the worst case, where you > get the dwg from someone, I can confirm that the dwg-dxf converter they > use works perfectly fine in wine as a workaround. My guess is that the > chances to get someone export a dxf instead of a dwg is just as high as > having him export the specific 2000 format that the developers try to > support. Still, why not have a group try to support dwg directly, while > dxf import improves faster and more relieable. I don't fully agree. For two reasons: one, converting from DWG to DWX potentially causes data loss, since DWF is a subset of DWG. Two, most non-hacker people don't even know what DXF is. Talking to engineers and architects, I've been told that most AutoCAD files are shared in DWG format. It's like asking someone to save their .doc in .rtf. Two other things: we do support versions other than R2000. R13, R14 and R2004 are currently working. R2010 (and its variants) is still obscure: ODA has reverse engineered it but hasn't released the specs so far. We are also working on write support - if everything goes as expected we'll have a SoC student working on it this summer. We are also trying to revive out python binding work. Whereas we have a mostly working library, we haven't released officially yet. We will make an alpha release soon if we manage to fix some known bugs. Please subscribe to [email protected] for announcements. I can announce to this list as well. -- Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP FSF Associate Member #7788
