Some DXF files I import from solvespace do not import properly in QCAD. Yes these same files can be read properly by some online viewers such as https://3axis.co/dxf-viewer/dxf-viewer/ and can be read by LibreCad, so I know the fault does not lie in the DXF files, but lies squarely with QCAD. I am supposing that given a DXF file with X,Y, and Z coordinates, it is only readling the X and Y coordinates, thus if the particular view, for example, is in the XZ plane, it will collapse all the entities to a line or a point. I will never buy or invest in this program until this is fixed.
Interested to hear if anyone else has found this to be true. See the attached DXF. When it is imported in QCAD, it is just a line, but if you viewed in the link provided above, you can see that it is not.
Some DXF files import as 1D
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Some DXF files import as 1D
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Re: Some DXF files import as 1D
There are many different DXF readers with various degrees on tolerating issues in DXF files.
This would indicate that there is definitely an issue with the file. Note that the DXF format is defined by Autodesk, maker of Autocad which notoriously has a zero tolerance for erroneous DXF files.
I can confirm that the default importer of QCAD (based on Teigha) is also unable to import the geometry in this file.
However, you can explicitly choose to use another, more tolerant importer based on dxflib:
File > Open > Filter: DXF Files [dxflib]
autocad360.com (the official Autocad standard free online DXF/DWG viewer) does not load the file at all:so I know the fault does not lie in the DXF files, but lies squarely with QCAD
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Unrecoverable exit code from extractor: -1073741831
I can confirm that the default importer of QCAD (based on Teigha) is also unable to import the geometry in this file.
However, you can explicitly choose to use another, more tolerant importer based on dxflib:
File > Open > Filter: DXF Files [dxflib]