[Buildingdata] Re: Update on Edinburgh buildings, CAD software, etc

[Ian Stuart]

On 15/08/11 07:52, Jo Walsh wrote:
> Failure: i've so far been unable to even *look at*, let alone
> understand, the AutoCAD .dwgs that the space managers sent us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dwg

"DWG ("drawing") is a binary file format used for storing two and three 
dimensional design data and metadata."

" From 1982 to 2009, Autodesk created versions of AutoCAD which wrote no 
fewer than 18 major variants of the DWG file format, none of which are 
publicly documented."

Your on a hard road there :)

cad2svg (http://etc.nkadesign.com/Download/Cad2svg) may help.... except 
it converts text into multiple line-fragments.... which are therefore 
not machine-readable :(

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Ian Stuart.
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