DWG import possible?

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 From:  F.ip2 (CEKUHNEN)
7581.1 
Hi Michael,

would it be possible to import DWG as a format? It is used a lot in furniture design.
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 From:  Michael Gibson
7581.2 In reply to 7581.1 
Hi F.ip2 - unfortunately the DWG format is not documented by Autodesk, instead they actually go through some effort to make it difficult for other programs to read.

So it's not really feasible to implement a DWG reader by myself - I would need to license an external library to do it and the main one to do that is kind of expensive.

So I'm sorry but I do not expect to implement a DWG reader in MoI anytime soon.

However, all the same data that can be contained in a DWG file can be written to a DXF file as well, and in MoI v3 I have added a DXF importer that will read 2D drawing entities like lines, circles, arcs, etc... from a DXF file.

So if you export your furniture drawing to DXF format, you should be able to bring that into MoI using the DXF importer. Usually programs that save DWG files will also save DXF files as well.

- Michael
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