OT - CAD question

[antonio montagnani]

Carroll Grigsby wrote/ha scritto, On/il 12/09/2004 03:07:

>On Saturday 11 September 2004 07:45 pm, James Pifer wrote:
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>>On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 18:42, James Pifer wrote:
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>>>I have some drawings an architect did for me that I would like to open
>>>in some CAD program and hopefully make some modifications. The catch is
>>>the architect did the drawings in Softcad (I believe version 11). My
>>>understanding in that this version could not export to dwg.
>>>
>>>The files he sent me have an spd extension. Anyone know of any way of
>>>getting these opened or converted to another format? Any CAD program on
>>>Linux be able to open them? Right now I have no specific CAD program
>>>running on my Redhat or Fedora machines. A "free" one would be
>>>preferable.
>>>
>>>Being an off topic question replies can be sent to me directly if anyone
>>>has any ideas.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>James
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>>>
>>Sorry, that was Softplan, not SoftCAD....
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>>James
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>James:
>I'm not familiar with either Softplan or .spd files, but I have had a lot of 
>experience with the problem of incompatible CAD file formats. Most CAD 
>programs offer the option of exporting to something other than their native 
>format; the most popular seems to be .dxf. If Softplan has that capability, 
>then you should be able to view and modify them in QCad (although bear in 
>mind that these conversions almost always involve some compromises). QCad is 
>a free Linux application. It is somewhat limited in that it only does 2D, 
>many people have found it useful and not unnecessarily complex to use. It can 
>be found here:
>http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html
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>If .dxf doesn't fly, there may be other workarounds such as .pdf, HPGL, etc.
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>Ah, the joy of incompatible propietary file formats...
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>-- cmg
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and even if you export to dxf files and re-import them in another 
application (what  /I did /between Autocad and Qcad) , maybe that you 
get a messed job (maybe due to standard settings of different application??

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 Antonio M.

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