With gdal 1.8 and 1.9 I am unable to convert any polygon datasets to DXF in a 
format where they can be read by AutoCad.  Every time I try to open a DXF 
created with these versions I get the error:

The following error was encountered while reading
in HATCH starting at line 1546:
Error: expected group code 10
Invalid or incomplete DXF input -- drawing discarded.

I've found a couple of mentions of this issue on the mailing list in the past 
but haven't seen any real solutions.  Details are below:

I am currently using 1.9.0, and have tried converting programmatically from 
postgis 1.5.3 -> DXF  and   have also tried using ogr2ogr from Shapefile -> DXF 
with the same result.
The OGR2OGR command lines I've tried are:

ogr2ogr -f "DXF" polytest2.dxf polytest.shp
or 
ogr2ogr -f "DXF" -nlt POLYGON polytest2.dxf polytest.shp

The test shapefile contains only 3 simple polygon shapes with no holes or 
multi-part geometries, and as far as I can tell I'm using the standard DXF 
header and footer files that come with GDAL.  The DXFs work fine when created 
with the older 1.7 version of GDAL which just translates the polygons as lines.

Does anyone know of another approach I can try, or is this a known bug?  I can 
send anyone a sample dxf file if they would like to take a look at it.

Regards

Colin Wright



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