Jon Shorie wrote: > The one feature that MUST be there is the ability to open .dwg files. > Anything that cannot do this in recent autodesk > formats is a non-starter as far as government goes. We often receive cad > drawings from developers and outside > engineers that we have to be able to open here to make use of their data. For those interested: we are working on QCAD 3 (cross platform 2d CAD) which will be able to read / write all versions of DXF and DWG (using the OpenDesign libs). QCAD 3 should be ready for a first release in 2010. Andrew -- RibbonSoft GmbH http://www.ribbonsoft.com