Posted by aTom on Nov 20, 2016; 4:51pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/LibreCAD-with-permission-problem-in-ArchLinux-tp5714307p5714429.html

Hi,

I've been having a similar problem, while trying to open a dwg file (except it wasn't made with autocad but draftsight).
Librecad can be quite verbose to help you debug your problem, in a terminal, try running the following command :
$ librecad --debug 6 'your_file.dwg' > librecad.log 2>&1

librecad will try to open your dwg file and log everything to librecad.log. Then try this command :
$ cat librecad.log | grep DXFRW && cat librecad.log | grep dwg && cat librecad.log | grep DWG

You should get about eveything related to your dwg import.

As for my dwg files, I had bad dwg version errors and printDwgError: DRW::BAD_READ_OFFSETS errors.

I found a workaround, but not a good one. I used draftsight to export my dwg files as dxf and librecad could import the dxf files easily. Now I can go on working on my drawings =)