[cad-linux] dxf/dwg

how did you created the wrapper? swig? handmade?
opendwg is some kind of reverse engineered dwg, isn't it?
there has been a post some days ago about autodesk releasing
the dwk toolkit under a "do what you like" licence. any plans
to create wrapper for this toolkit?

Thomas

> > The following was supposedly scribed by
> > Thomas Schmidt
> > on Saturday 31 May 2003 08:09 am:
> >
> >The dxf module is _very_ slow.
>
> The same is true with AutoCAD.  Loading a dxf file with 90,000 circles
> takes something like 6 minutes and it quickly runs into 500+ MB ram.  T=
his
> is why I started using the openDWG library for my perl program (BTW, th=
e
> wrapper for this will soon be available, and may be hosted on the openD=
WG
> site:)  just as soon as I get the license, distribution and some docs p=
ut
> together.)  The same data in a dwg file loads in just a few seconds (th=
ere
> is little or no improvement from using binary dxf.)  I'm sure it has be=
en
> said before, but I will say it again:  If dxf is such a great format, w=
hy
> doesn't autodesk use it natively?
>
> --Eric

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