>From the look of it, the DXF file is being converted into paper space rather 
than into drawing space, and the scaling is in screen coord rather than in 
drawing coordinates. 

Maybe there is an option in the converter to keep the drawings in engineering 
units...?

Of course, if you do find a solution, the problem then will be that the origin 
will be in the wrong place since DXF places the origin in a different place 
than SVG does. 

Ronan

On Thursday 24 August 2006 10:36, Chris Lilley wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 9:01:57 AM, bblcld wrote:
>
> b> I try to evaluate a DXF2SVG converter but I found a problem.  I need
> b> to convert DXF files in SVG format mantaining  dimensions.   If in DXF
> b> format I have 100mm diameter circle  with 0,0 center coordinates
> b> position, I  would like to have an SVG draw with the same
> b> situation.    This because, after ina 2nd phase of process, I have to
> b> merge 2 or 3 SVG files  and  they must preserve  reciprocal position
> b> and dimension.     All converters seems to scale every dxf draw to
> b> fill all the pixmap fixed (ie 800x600).    Where is the real poblem?
>
>
>
> Sounds like the converter is doing a bad job. Which ones did you test?

-- 
Ronan Oger
Director
RO IT Systems GmbH
        ...Building Web2.0 with SVG since 2001

http://www.roitsystems.com


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