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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: An open source application (can't afford ESRI) that can convert the CAD file to a shape file? Is that a better file format I can use other than the shape file (shp) format? Any suggestions would be greatly appricated Regards Chris 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

I have a revit file and am able to convert it via the cloud to a svf and view it in the 3D viewer. It works both as conversion of the .rvt file directly and as an export from the navisworks addin exporter. My question: I want the user of my app to also be able to see the floor 2D view as you can in revit. I have looked through all the manifest files and do not see a f2d for the floor view. What do you suggest I use for the 2D view? Note that I will have many drawings to process/view so I would prefer not to have to export a dwg for each view then convert those. I am hoping there is a special

I'm Automating Inventor 2013 using UFT as follows:- Set oApp = GetObject(,"Inventor.Application") Set oDoc = oApp.ActiveDocument Here I'm using GetObject() function to get reference of running Inventor Application. but I have a questions about GetObject() function that 1)How it find out any application is present or in running state? 2)How it access header class of particular application so we will access of all methods and properties of that application's class? can anybody explain this? GetObject and CreateObject are part of COM automation provided by VBScript. VBScript can't use all the COM