Any way to open a dwg (Auto Cad ) file

[Karl Larsen]

Robert Hodgins wrote:
> 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
>>     
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> This might help:http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/
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>   
    It looks like this effort has the libraries from Auto Cad that make 
their viewer work on Linux. As you see on the page there are a lot of 
legal questions. Auto Cad has sued a lot of people with great success.

Karl


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