[FWTools] reading dwg format

[Frank Warmerdam]

Travis Kirstine wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone have any ideas of how to read dwg files.  I am tring to
> create a tile index of dwg file with no success.

Travis,

FWTools (GDAL/OGR) has no support for reading DWG files (or DXF files).
Sorry.

There is a DWG driver available, but it is write-only and depends on a
messy external library.

Best regards,
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