DWG / DXF import into LO2017 / LO2016

juju

Since the API for LO was made available (November 2015 IIRC) and it being possible to write "extensions" for LO I have not seen a single implementation, apart from a ruby script (by SketchUp) to export all pages from SU to LO (which, in my opinion, doesn't really count), I was hoping to see a few at least.

One shortcoming of LO that would really be super helpful is if you could import DWG / DXF into LO without going through SU. If you go through SU, then you lose a lot of information. Ideally I would like to import the DWG / DXF created by another consultant and be able to overlay that with drawings and do some checking.

I see that you can find some free C/C++ code to read DWG / DXF files, I have no idea how to judge how good / bad it is as I can't program my way out of a brown paper bag the size of your hand, but I would imagine that utilizing such code means that part of the battle would be won in the creation of an extension that could import DWG/DXF files into LO.

Unless there is another program one could use to do this, preferably low cost and definitely perpetual licence based, if you know of / use such a thing this may solve the problem then. However, ideally I would prefer pulling DWG/DXF files into LO.

JQL

Importing DWG/DXF into Layout as well as other vector formats has been in the wishlist for some time.

It's really useful for that workflow you specify which is a really useful workflow.

I also overlay DWG files on top of my models but I do it in SU though. I use a section cut face scene to do that and it usually works well. I don't get annotations or texts though, and that is, of course annoying but the worst thing is I don't have linestyles so I can overlay consultants files and read correctly what's on roof or under the floor. I circumvent that using other workflows and it still works though.

Maybe, while you don't have DWG import on Layout, you can consider it.

juju

bump

LO2016 is irrelevant to me at this stage, so LO2017 and onwards would apply.

#pretty_please?