Any way to open a dwg (Auto Cad ) file

[Nils Kassube]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     Please give up trying to read an Auto Cad file with something other
> than Auto Cad. My son is a Civil Engineer and owns his company. He has
> to pay $4,000.00 for each version of Auto Cad he uses. This software
> runs ONLY on Windows. When running it takes about 95% of the CPU time
> on a pentium.

Sorry, I don't understand your logic. You just provided 3 reasons why it 
_is_ useful to try to read DWG files with something other than AutoCAD.

- $4000 is not exactly cheap.
- It only runs on Windows.
- It takes 95% CPU.


Nils