>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 ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/