Re: status dxf svg formats

[bruce davison <bruce yourweb com au>]

Lars,
Thanks for getting back to me.
I will give it a shot.
Let you know when I sort it out.

Bruce

Lars Clausen wrote:

> On 14 Jun 2003, bruce davison wrote:
>  
>
> > Yep tried all of that.
> > Environment Win2000 Professional sp3
> > Autocad 2002
> > Dia v 0.91
> > Attached is the original drawing and converted files
> > 4WE6HZ.dwg - original drawing
> > 4WE6HZ.dxf - autocad 2002 converted - no scaling
> > 4WE6HZ.shape - exported
> > 4WE6HZ.png - generated
> >
> > 4WE6HZ.1.dxf - autocad 2002 converted - SCALED to .1
> > 4WE6HZ.1.shape - exported
> > 4WE6HZ.1.png - generated
> >
> > I am happy to get my hands dirty to solve this if someone can point my
> > in the right direction.
> >    
>
> I see that it's rather big.  I suspect that the importer, while it gets
> scaling right, doesn't get the units right.  The importer is
> plug-ins/dxf/dxf-import.c, and should be easy to understand.  There's an
> overview of the file format at
> http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/3d/DXF12.spec.  I don't have time to
> get into it now, if you could figure this out, it'd be great.
>
> -Lars
>
>