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by Jim Canale on 17.07.2015

I tried to contact you from your github page but the contact link crashes Firefox.

I was under the impression that installing DXF-Importer would give FreeCAD the capability to export 3D objects as *.DWG's. Is that true? We are having some problems with that. I downloaded the zipped files. I don't have installation privileges, so our IT manager placed the unzipped files in my c:usersjimcappdataoamingfreecad folder. (We're running Windows 7 Pro. ) FreeCAD then asked us to download and install Teigha. Did that too.

Now we can do the export, but each one is going to a different subdirectory under c:usersjimcappdatalocal emp. And the files are all .DXF's even if I ask for a .DWG.

Finally, I see that the exports contain no 3D information. They are 2D views.

I opened the Teigha application on its own, and found that it can convert Autocad DWG's and DXF's to earlier versions of DXF's and DWG's. If the file was 3D to begin with, it remains 3D.

Can you tell me how this is supposed to work, and how to fix it?

Thanks for your time.

by Jim Canale on 17.07.2015