Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of AutoCADTricks


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Jun 16, 2021, 4:29:41 PM (5 years ago)
Author:
Eric Hazen
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  • AutoCADTricks

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     2[LibreCAD https://librecad.org/] is a nice open-source alternative to e.g. !AutoCAD for simple 2D drawing.  It's native format is DXF, which is supposed to be interchangeable with !AutoCAD.  However, as of now (LibreCAD 2.1.3) the DXF files produced provoke an error in at least !AutoCAD2000 such as:
     3
     4{{{
     5  Unknown group 49 for table on line xxxx
     6  Invalid or incomplete DXF input -- drawing discarded
     7}}}
     8
     9See [http://www.relief.hu/h_dxf12.html DXF format info] (or [http://ohm.bu.edu/~hazen/AutoCAD/AutoCAD%20Release%2012%20DXF%20Format.html local copy]).
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     11The troublesome entity is a table which begins:
     12{{{
     13  0
     14TABLE
     15  2
     16DIMSTYLE
     17}}}
     18
     19and ends:
     20
     21{{{
     22  0
     23ENDTAB
     24}}}
     25
     26After a few tests it seems that deleting this table makes the file usable.  Writing a perl script...