Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 9 months ago

#170 closed enhancement

Add ogr support for DWG format — at Version 8

Reported by: TC Haddad Owned by: Jeff McKenna
Priority: enhancement Milestone: 5.2.0 release
Component: MS4W - GDAL Version: 3.2.7
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:

Description (last modified by Jeff McKenna)

Not sure if this is possible, as it is unclear to me if a user must have a license to use this format or not. However I'm submitting here in case it seems possible. It has been a format that users have requested in the past.

For some reason there are 2 different gdal reference pages:

​http://www.gdal.org/drv_cad.html
​http://www.gdal.org/drv_dwg.html

Also these might be helpful:

​http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DxfDwg

​https://github.com/sandyre/libopencad

​https://www.opendesign.com/files/guestdownloads/OpenDesign_Specification_for_.dwg_files.pdf

If building DWG into ogr is not possible, it appears an alternative for users is to use a converter tool to change files from DWG to DXF, which is already in ogr:

​https://www.opendesign.com/guestfiles/TeighaFileConverter

Change History (8)

comment:1 by Jeff McKenna, 8 years ago

Milestone: 4.0 release → 4.1 release

comment:2 by Jeff McKenna, 8 years ago

Type: defect → task

comment:3 by Jeff McKenna, 8 years ago

Type: task → enhancement

comment:4 by Jeff McKenna, 6 years ago

Milestone: 4.1 release → 4.2 release

Milestone renamed

comment:5 by Jeff McKenna, 6 years ago

Milestone: 4.2 release → 4.1 release

Milestone renamed

comment:6 by Jeff McKenna, 6 years ago

Milestone: 4.1 release → 4.1.0 release

Milestone renamed

comment:7 by Jeff McKenna, 5 years ago

Milestone: 4.1.0 release → 5.0.0 release

Milestone renamed

comment:8 by Jeff McKenna, 5 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

The GDAL "CAD" driver is available in MS4W 5.0.0-alpha. (needs testing)

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