[Freegis-list] Free DXF-Viewer, Converter?

[Guy Edwards]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:33, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
[snip]
> Also it might attract even more help.
> Because it is going to be a competition against the proprietary
> Opendwg libs, considering the GNU LGPL might make sense for this
> code piece.
> 
> Do you have pointer for the discussion why the pythonCAD people
> did not improve any of the existing libraries?
> E.g. DIME or dxflib.

hmm... I better make sure I get my facts straight :-)

Maybe I shouldn't have called it a library? I'm not a programmer.  I
think originally it was just a sort of test python script to read/ parse
DWG files and it's just grown from that. I can't speak for their project
but I think they wanted to use python and also maybe they weren't
expecting it to grow into a library as such.

I haven't spoken to Art Haas the guy who was writing it in a while. He
is in the PythonCAD project which should be http://www.pythoncad.org/
but that appears to be down at the moment?

google cache url:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:Hw5FV7PpvywJ:www.pythoncad.org/+pythoncad&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8
 
His original post that sparked it off is here: (text)
http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/dwg/original_post.txt
It should also be in the cad-linux mailing list archives
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux

I helped with the testing by using a web page but it's out of date and
my scripting efforts to help were pretty poor.
http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/dwg/dwg.php

Guy