If I could chip in - one of my clients is a large industrial client.
They have two sides of their "mapping" group - Autocad and ESRI. Then I
show up : ).
They use the DWG format - in fact most of my clients that have autocad
capability will send me DWG and when I go "hey could you convert that to
dxf" there is a general groan. So - I pop open arcgis and convert. Now
that I think about it I've never tried converting data from dwg to shape
or back to dwg with gdal. I don't know if that is even possible (I need
to look). TN's department of Transportation runs a healthy mix of
ESRI/AutoCAD/Microstation (I think) but as far as a know no open source
anything. I get the question of "What about DWG?" more than I care to
mention.
Having DWG capabilites would be a huge gain for QGIS (I think).
Anyway - my unsolicited .02 cents worth.
Randy
On 06/15/2015 03:28 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
Hi Micha,
That is interesting - we invested a lot in the DXF export capabilities
of QGIS. Once this is finished I am pretty sure we will also look to
improve the situation regarding the import.
Do you think import of DXF is enough or do we also need DWG support?
If so, the best bet would probably be the Teigha library from the Open
Design Alliance (https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha),
which isn't available for free - but it is the library most other GIS
(eg. ESRI, Intergraph) and CAD (eg. Bentley, Bricscad, etc.) are
using. We would have to pay a membership fee, but it allows us to
redistribute the library with the software. Membership in the
consortium is affordable in my opinion.
What are your thoughts on this? Would you also be available to help
with a crowd-funding effort? Do you see options besides Teigha?
Andreas
On 15.06.2015 08:57, Micha Silver wrote:
On 06/15/2015 09:23 AM, Bernhard Ströbl wrote:
Hi Joseph,
could you elaborate why "it would be unrealistic to say we
could ever be a 100% QGIS"? I am curious because I lost contact with
ESRI products a couple years ago.
From our point of view, we need support for dwg. That side of vendor
lock-in is, unfortunately, even stronger that the ties to ESRI. So we
stay with Arc* not because of the GIS capabilites, but more or less
only because of the ability to read Autocad plans and surveys.
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