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

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:

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> using SPRING ( www.dpi.inpe.br/spring ) u can import DXF files to a
> spring database, then export it to shapefile format. and there's other
> tool , which I can't remember the link, that's "CAD2Shape".  regards.

Well I downloaded and installed it on a Windows system.  Problem is the
documentation is not-English (kind of my fault since I never went beyond
11th grade Spanish ... 30+ years ago and I have never tried Portuguese :-)  
and the import of data is not as intutive as I'd hoped it would be.
   We're looking for - mostly for mapping - software that is free, runs on
the #$%^& Windows machines I'm stuck with here (My Linux box is at home
;-) and imports/exporst many format.  Anyone have some solid examples (in
English) of importing DXF or Shapefile data into SPRING they can share?


TIA,
Rod
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