Carroll Grigsby wrote/ha scritto, On/il 12/09/2004 03:07:
On Saturday 11 September 2004 07:45 pm, James Pifer wrote:
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 18:42, James Pifer wrote:
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
Sorry, that was Softplan, not SoftCAD....
James
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
If .dxf doesn't fly, there may be other workarounds such as .pdf, HPGL, etc.
Ah, the joy of incompatible propietary file formats...
-- cmg
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??
--
Antonio M.
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