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I failed to listen to my 'inner self' I know I should be more attentive as my physical memory is going downhill, unfortunately. In this case the converter offers conversion to binary and also ascii. Knot knowing much about DWG and dxf files at all I picked binary, thinking QCAG being more advanced p...

After finding that dwg files can not be opened in CE version of QCAD I have now found out that pclinuxos has a repo file that does conversion on command line. I get dxf files as result, in this case binary if that has impact on following. The converted files seem to be accepted by QCAD CE Drawing lo...

OOOOPS, now I understand, and I think I had seen something about that earlier, the community version does not support .dwg. Details found here

https://qcad.org/en/qcad-documentation/qcad-features

I will have to look at converting my older files to .dxf

My last 2D CAD was DraftSight Free, but I have recently lost my Free version and two or 3 backups. Being in need of doing a bit of very simple mechanical engineering I figure I would change to QCAD community version. Instead of trying to dig even deeper in my backups. At 77 years of age I am now hav...

Hello from Tasmania , Australia Have been aware of QCAD for quite some time. Interested in the community version because of ability to run under Linux and available in the PCLinuxOS. I was pretty well setup using DraftSight free version and thought I had it well backed up, just in case something wou...