topic Re: PYTHON CODING HELP DXF to DWG in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

PYTHON CODING HELP DXF to DWG

nicolasR6NGC — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:10:27 GMT

I'm on Autodesk LT so I can't use win32 to automate saving a dwt or dxf into a dwg for xref. Is there another work around to get this process done?

Background:

I've made a lisp that references a python exe that takes a KMZ path and creates a box region around it so that another script can create a shape file that contains all parcel geometry within that region.

From here I would like to automatically xref it into the open file that ran the intial lisp. The problem I have is getting the geometry into a dwg. I have tried opening and placing it into a dwt and saving it as a dwg but I can't access the dwt via python for some reason. This would be the ideal path so that I can store it into a template as well but is not necessary. What I can do is save it as a DXF so if I can automatically convert this to a dwg then auto reference it then I can work around the problem. If there is a better solution that comes to mind I'd love to hear it but for now I'm looking into how to convert this and reference it automatically. Any ideas?

@nicolasR6NGC - moderation edited title for clarity.

Re: PYTHON CODING HELP DXF to DWG

CodeDing — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:12:31 GMT

@nicolasR6NGC ,

Why not have Python just write a text file (like CSV), then have lisp read the file and create the objects?

Re: PYTHON CODING HELP DXF to DWG

nicolasR6NGC — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:25:31 GMT

Oh that's a great idea thank you!

Re: PYTHON CODING HELP DXF to DWG

nicolasR6NGC — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:21:03 GMT

I just realize this will likely not work due how curves will be handled.

Re: PYTHON CODING HELP DXF to DWG

CodeDing — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:23:26 GMT

@nicolasR6NGC ,

To my knowledge, KMZ/KML/Shapefiles do not support curves. Should work just fine

Re: PYTHON CODING HELP DXF to DWG

nicolasR6NGC — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:07:01 GMT

Ah your right I viewed it in CAD just now and the curves are composed of multiple lines.