Any way to open a dwg (Auto Cad ) file

[Robert Hodgins]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:09 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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


This might help:http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/