RE: Fwd: [libredwg] how can i contribute

[Jake Abel]

There are several pre-2000 versions (R12, R13, R14, earlier) but modern
AutoCAD can only open R14, R2000 (15), R2004 (16), R2007 (17) and R2010
(18).  R12 DXFs can be imported if desired.  There is a new version of the
program every year, but a change in file formats is only made when the
program really goes to the next major version every three years (typically),
for instance, 2007 is R17, 2008 is R17.1, 2009 is R17.2 and 2010 is R18.

In my opinion, supporting anything before R2000 is a complete waste of
time...that's the oldest you ever see in a work environment.

-Jake

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 6:14 AM
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Fwd: [libredwg] how can i contribute

address@hidden wrote:
> It looks like he has been able to convert the svg test suite!

Ok, but we should let him know that we only (are planning to) support R13,
R14, R2000, R2004 and R2007. I don't even know if R2002 or R2006 exist.
Maybe they are just AutoCAD versions but not file format versions.

BTW, please explain me how are you planning to use this Inkscape test suite.
Are you planning to use just the sample, or is there an automated test suite
that we can take advantage of someway?
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> From: *Guruprasad Rane* <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>
> Date: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [libredwg] how can i contribute
> To: "address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>" 
> <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>
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> I tried using Inkscape to convert svg to dxf. But unfortunately all 
> the dxf files generated were blank.
>
> So I used Corel Draw to convert all the svg files directly to dwg 
> files in R11, R13, R14, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 & 2007 format. I 
> modified the CorelDraw fileconverter macro to add DWG support and 
> batch converted the file. But the total file size is 750MB. Its 
> because all the texts are converted to arcs  while doing batch 
> convert. If individual files are converted text remain as text. I am
trying to fix this up.
>
>
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> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 19:57 +0100, address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
> > yes
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Guruprasad Rane 
> > <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >         OK
> >
> >         1. So I should extract svg files from all the links on this
> >         page
> >         
> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20061213/htmlObjectHarness/full-in
> dex.html
> >
> >         2. then convert each of them to dxf
> >
> >         3. then convert each of them to all dwg formats.
> >
> >         So we will have say folders like r14, 2000, 2004, and so on
> >         with each folder with 275 dwg files.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 19:35 +0100,
> >         address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
> >         > I have tried it out,
> >         > you can open the svg test suite here:
> >         >
> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Test_Suite_Overview#SVG_1.1_Tes
> t_Suite
> >         >
> >         > with inkscape you can save to dxf,
> >         >
> >         > then we can use some windows program to convert that into
> >         > all the dwg formats
> >         > and then we have a nice test suite.
> >         >
> >         > mike
> >         >
> >         > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:09 PM,
> >         > address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>
> >         > <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >         >         my suggestion :
> >         >         you can help me make a test suite of files.
> >         >         we need to convert some other dxf and svg test
> >         >         suites into various dwg files for testing.
> >         >         mike
> >         >
> >         >         On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Guruprasad Rane
> >         >         <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >         >                 Hi everyone
> >         >
> >         >                 please let me know how can i contribute to
> >         >                 the development of libredwg?
> >         >
> >         >                 Regards
> >         >
> >         >
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