Converting a CAD file to a shape file

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ChrisJ picture ChrisJ · Aug 4, 2010 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

Thanks for the assist on my previous question.... I was able to complete my project This time I have a CAD file created with Autodesk that I need to convert to a shape file.

Couple of questons:

  1. An open source application (can't afford ESRI) that can convert the CAD file to a shape file?

  2. Is that a better file format I can use other than the shape file (shp) format?

Any suggestions would be greatly appricated

Regards Chris

Answer

TheSteve0 picture TheSteve0 · Aug 6, 2010

You should use OGR

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/

It is the main program for converting between geographic formats. It is written in C++ but there are also python bindings. It is compiled and runs on almost every major OS.

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