Posted by paul.a on Feb 25, 2020; 12:07am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/file-dwg-wont-open-file-dxf-opens-but-can-t-see-on-the-screen-tp5718133p5718456.html

Sorry, it's not "basic", in real life it fails. I have supported, and continue to support the Linux, open source, future of IT for three decades or more (started writing Fortran/Cobol in the late 1950s). I have a Win .exe that runs under 98SE (in an Oracle VM) that opens .dwg, manipulates them with no problems, but has next-to-no output capability.
We -- the Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, whatever, community need to get our backsides into gear. If LibreCad can't do it, and insist on going back to 23 year old M$ software, we (you, me, the community) are missing out on "the future."
So be it -- Paul