John Taber wrote:
On Friday 08 April 2005 15:50, Bob Jamison wrote:
Well, if we had more autocad guys here, we could just do it ourselves. ;-)
Be glad you are talented programmers instead of one of us poor civil engineers:) Besides, Inkscape is so much easier to use!
You're right, the original DXF is not real difficult but they keep breaking the specs with each new release and they do not export to SVG - but they do export to the older R12 dxf so we could base on that. I think that is what OO is based on. QCAD also uses dxf but I'm not sure what version. I'll try to work up something this week.
I used to do mucking about with dxf conversion. Even took courses including Autocad. I'd do a lot to munge things in and of of different 3D formats. Of course, this was more in the '90-'95 timeframe. However, I had been going through the specs, and keept a little abreast of things over the years.
One thing I was thinking, when I saw the first messages on this thread, was that even if there are some other DXF converters we might want to do our own anyway, since there might be higher-level semantics we could preserve differently, or might map into Inkscape-specific extensions. Thinking of some of the things wanted like diagramming, connectors, etc.