I agree that many programs can use .dxf files, but it's not so simple as
it looks. First of all conversion of native autocad or microstation
files, especially if they are not properly edited, breaks layers and
engineer should spend hours and hours to restore layer structure. That
happen even if we need to open drawings created by older versions of
autocad, so we keep most of them starting from nineteenths to be sure
that what we see is what we should see, especially if we take in account
special character tables used in our language in different times.
Conversion from microstation to autocad is another painful thing. I
don't know any opensource user friendly 3D cad drawing application for
linux which supports scripting and macros. I think the only way is
porting of autocad to linux, not development of linux alternatives.
There was interesting discussion about CAD applications in Ubuntu forum
at the beginning of this year.
Mistakes in engineering drawings can be much more painful (or at least
costly) than mistakes in text documents...
Greetings,
Andis
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:42, my mailbox was graced by a missive
from Andis Lazdinsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who wrote:
but, for instance, most of engineering
companies (like my company) should use windows, because they need to
work with microstation, autocad and other propriety cad software
documents.
In one word: Rubbish.
Theere are plenty CAD progs out there that use the open format .dxf files,
into which ISTR that Autocad and other proprietary CAD progs can export, to
make this argument as ridiculous as "We must have Windows, because we
use .doc documents".
Cheers,
Ron.
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