Thanks David I have run into this with my cities [others] only having digital data that is done by a contracted engineering firm, of which the head locomotive driver [train engineer] has absolutely no clue about what GIS is.
Also, a note to Bill T Is the server suffering seizures again? This post and yours [SearchInfo()] just came in and Kontact marked them as "yesterday" 21:20 and 13:18 respectively, and this morning I got about 5 that were as far back as Tuesday. On Sat 05 Aug 2006 21:20, David Reid wrote: > Well, not really a SUM. No replies and no fix found but, I figure there's > always another way to skin a cat. > > As the DWG would open in the Autodesk Trueview cad file viewer, but would > not open in Mapinfo or even Corel Draw, I suspected some newer file format > change that UT could not handle. > > Found a DWG to DXF file converter at AnyDWG http://www.anydwg.com/ which > would read the DWG file and allow me to output it to DXF which I specified > an older file version. > > This works quite smoothly. Converted the DWG to DXF's, and I have > re-imported the DXF's appling the needed transformation to my desired > projection and all is well with the world now :) > > I found the limited evaluation version of AnyDWG at > http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Misc__Graphics_T >o ols/DWG_TO_DXF_Converter.html > > > David Reid > Colbert County 9-1-1 > Colbert County Alabama > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Reid > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 3:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MI-L] Memory error converting DWG with Universal Translator > > > Greetings list, > > I've never in all the DWG conversions I've done, run across this problem. I > guess it could be a corrupt DWG file but it opens fine in the Autodesk > Trueview viewer. > > Universal Translator keeps producing the following error with a dialog > entitled "SmartHeap Lirbrary" > > "Out of memory. Please free some memory, then choose retry." > > I've rebooted the pc to make sure any rampant apps have cleared memory but > I still get this error message. > > I've tried translating to both *.tab and mid/mif still no luck. > > The drive partition this dwg is being converted on has 3.6 gb of free > space, the temp directory on another partition of nearly 1 gb of free > space. > > The last few lines of the mutlog read: > > STATUS: AutoCAD Reader: AutoCAD Load is 96% complete > > abnormal program termination > Unable to generate mapping file. > > > > Anyone seen this before and found a fix? > > Many thanks if you can help, > David Reid > > -- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.7/409 - Release Date: 08/04/2006 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MapInfo-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l -- Trey Pattillo Failure is not an option.... It comes standard with all Microsoft products. _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
