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Read AutoCAD's DWG file format

桃花潭水
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Hello LibreCAD developers:
  I compiled LibreCAD according to the official documentation and can build it with QT, but I found that it seems to be not so friendly to AutoCAD DWG files. Even DXF files drawn in AutoCAD, I opened them with LibreCAD, and the text in the files was gone. What plugins can I use to improve these features?
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Re: Read AutoCAD's DWG file format

dxli
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Dwg support is minimum. Dxf support is only up to dxf 2007.

桃花潭水 wrote
Hello LibreCAD developers:
  I compiled LibreCAD according to the official documentation and can build it with QT, but I found that it seems to be not so friendly to AutoCAD DWG files. Even DXF files drawn in AutoCAD, I opened them with LibreCAD, and the text in the files was gone. What plugins can I use to improve these features?
                                                                                                                                         ——Xiao Ke
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Re: Read AutoCAD's DWG file format

桃花潭水
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Can I use LibreDWG, the open source DWG file library, to complete LibreCAD's DWG format
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Re: Read AutoCAD's DWG file format

dxli
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I think it's possible, if you want join the development.

桃花潭水 wrote
Can I use LibreDWG, the open source DWG file library, to complete LibreCAD's DWG format
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Re: Read AutoCAD's DWG file format

LordOfBikes
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Sadly it is still not possible for LibreCAD 2.*!
It was extensively discussed back in 2012 iirc that the LibreDWG license is not compatible with GPLv2, to which LibreCAD is still bound because of its QCAD roots.
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Re: Read AutoCAD's DWG file format

Fabi94
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If libredwg would be used as external library that is linked against, adding a linking exception for libredwg to the librecad copyright license terms should resolve that GPv2/GPLv3 issue https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs. There should already be such an exception there for Qt, since it is dual licensed under QT commercial license and GPLv3+ afaik, neither of which are compatible with GPLv2