Bryce Harrington wrote:
Inkscape has an 'extension' mechanism that allows it to use other programs to convert into SVG. If you can find another program that can convert .drw into .svg, for example, then you can import the files. I'm pretty sure no one has found a tool to do this, but possibly it's just because no one has looked until now. So I'd encourage you to do some research and see if there are any open source tools available to do that. If there is, that would make a good enhancement to include in Inkscape.
Hi,
I have been looking for a DXF-to-SVG converter. I notice there is a RFE for directly importing into Inkscape (#1062140), but perhaps an input converter program would actually fulfil the role quite well. Although there exists dxflib for reading DXF as an open-source project (http://dxflib.sourceforge.net/), no-one has written an SVG outputter based on this, which seems a shame. All the other converters I could find are commercial paid-for software. If I had more spare time, I'd write a DXF-to-SVG converter app. based on dxflib...
Regards, Rick