FS#221autocad dwg compatibility
- Type
- Feature Request
- Status
- Closed
- Resolution
- Implemented
- Category
- QCAD (main)
- Severity
- Low
- Priority
- Low
- Reported version
- Development
- Operating system
- All
- Reported
- 2011-08-31 by hungerburg
- Closed
- 2015-11-17 by andrew
DWG files created with QCAD display really fine now in autocad. There are only two minor issues for ACAD users:
1) ACAD complains, that they were not created with a licensed application. One may not be able to work around that one...
2) ACAD complains, that the file does not specify a codepage. For this one, there should be a way around, shouldn't it?
I am very happy with the compatibility in the new QCAD. Thank you very much for all the efforts that went into it!
Peter
Comments (6)
You may want to turn this into a feature request. (I can't.)
1) Cannot be fixed (that's how Autodesk wants it)
2) Potentially fixed in current development version (setting code page explicitly to ASCII). International characters and Unicode are supported through use of escape sequences, not code pages.
In current Beta QCAD saved files are latin1 encoded with dos line-endings. Autodesk provides the freely downloadable "autocad true view" that also displays said messages.
With dwg files saved from Beta 3 autocad true view still displays the warning about code-pages.
I caputered that dialog now. "ascii" is not known either, maybe it should be "English"? http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/modify_drawing_codepage.html
Actually, ASCII being a subset of ANSI_1252, a table should not be necessary at all. Maybe best to set the ansi table in file, because that is the autocad default, so it should make the message appear the least number of times.