I meant to say "have the attribute values of the feature as the attributes of the blcok."
Sorry about that. Landon On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Sunburned Surveyor <[email protected]> wrote: > You could create each feature as a block, and then have the attributes > of the feature as the block. > > The other way is to create text entities in your DXF file with the > values of the attribute. Both of these solutions are possible, but I'm > sure would require some extra programming. > > My CAD web page lists a couple of other free CAD program/viewers you > can use to test your DXF files: > > http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/community_cad.html > > Landon > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Andreas Neumann wrote: >>> >>> yes - it is a read/write driver. >> >> I have meanwhile checked out and tried it successfully. My use case is >> taking shape files with geodata (road networks, railway, land use etc) and >> converting them to DXF for a client of mine. I created a set of DXF files >> from my shapes and checked them in QCAD. >> >> Sadly I only get geometries, no extra attributes ("DXF layer does not >> support arbitrary field creation."). I can work around this by creating one >> shape file for every type of feature, but I'll never get something like >> street names that way. >> >>> There will be further work on this provider. If you (or someone else) >>> would have some money for improvements it would help as well. >> >> Is not being able to convert something like a street name a fundamental >> problem of DXF, or is this something that could be implemented for a client >> willing to part with some money? >> >> Bye >> Frederik >> _______________________________________________ >> gdal-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >> > _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
