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I would also like to mention our open source software "Dxf2PostGIS".<br>
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Description:<br>
A tool to convert DXF files to PostGIS geometry tables. A single DXF
file is converted to a PostgreSQL/PostGIS SQL script to create and
populate 5 tables, using the AutoCAD information of point, line,
polyline, text, circle, insert.<br>
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Sourceforge project page:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxf2postgis">http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxf2postgis</a><br>
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Direct download (Windows installer):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.glasic.it/download/open-source/dxf2postgis-setup-for-windows/download.html">http://www.glasic.it/download/open-source/dxf2postgis-setup-for-windows/download.html</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Guglielmo Nigri<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Glasic S.r.l.<br>
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Brent Wood wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">--- Eduardo Patto Kanegae <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:epk.lists@gmail.com">&lt;epk.lists@gmail.com&gt;</a> wrote:

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    <pre wrap="">Hi folks,

I have a CAD line layer describing the limits of a soil map. It's a
line layer because the first need was for printing only.

Now I need to put this soil map as a polygon into a GIS dataset.

Does anybody recommend any free gis tool that could be usefull to do that?
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Hi Eduardo,


I haven't tried it, but I believe GRASS has some capabilities in this area,
once you convert the CAD data to a supported format.

You could try PostGIS, if you can get your data into a postgis table somehow,
there are commands to do this. 

For an Open Source (Windows) tool to do the conversion to shapefile, try 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.happysquirrel.com/index.php?feature=dxf2shp">http://www.happysquirrel.com/index.php?feature=dxf2shp</a>
  or see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://software.geocomm.com/translators/cad-dxf/">http://software.geocomm.com/translators/cad-dxf/</a>

In PostGIS, see

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch06.html#id2843565">http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch06.html#id2843565</a>

The functions polygonize, makepolygon &amp; buildarea can probably do what you
want.



You may also find something useful at 

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://software.geocomm.com/topology/">http://software.geocomm.com/topology/</a>


HTH,

  Brent Wood

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