Re: [PLUG] CAD file viewing

[Chris Cera <cera@cs.drexel.edu>]

I've used dxflib [1] (the library used by QCAD) in the past to
read dxf files.  It would seem that QCAD works best with dxf
files.  Perhaps you could convert the dwg to dxf and try that
with QCAD?  If the geometry isn't tesselated, I have little faith
it will work flawlessly.  I have no experience with pythonCAD for
this type of thing.  You might also want to look into converting
into VRML if you're just viewing the models.  I'm curious to hear
if you succeed, good luck.

[1] http://www.ribbonsoft.com/dxflib.html


* Chad Waters <chad.c.waters@gmail.com> [051118 13:52]:
> Hi, does anyone know of an app that can view AutoCAD ( .dwg ) files? I
> need to convert them to a raster format.
> 
> I've tried QCAD, pythonCAD, the GIMP, Inkspace, Sodipodi and Dia. All
> to no avail.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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