Careful reading of that page indicates the drive is "write-only" for DWG. There is no read for DWG. It also is not supplied by default, must be added like ECW and MrSid.
DXF on the other hand is read/write under the default GDAL. At least according to what I see on those pages. Thanks, Alex On 09/03/2010 03:06 PM, Noli Sicad wrote: > I think read/write DWG and DXF formats is support in GDAL now, if I am > not mistaken > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DxfDwg > > http://mateusz.loskot.net/2006/01/03/writing-dwgdxf-files-with-ogr/ > > What it needs is QGIS plugin. > > BTW, there is Dxf2shp (Dxf to shapefile) plugin available. > > I hope this is clear enough to be undestood, not to mention QGIS uses GDAL. > > Noli > > On 9/4/10, Giovanni Manghi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> how to import to the data view from file extension dwg and extension cad >> >> >> you cannot open the .dwg files, because the format is really a closed >> one. >> >> Surprisingly there is another popular open source gis software that can >> open this kind of files, maybe people that uses it can tell here how >> this is possible. >> >> Don't know about .cad ones. >> >> cheers >> >> -- Giovanni -- >> _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
