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holomorph
August 1st, 2005, 09:05 PM
http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/

"LX-Viewer is a program that will allow you to open, view, print and convert DWG or DXF files, typically used in AutoCAD related technical drafting. "

seems like a pretty handy app for ppl who need to look at drawings from AutoCAD and many other CAD programs. As far as I can tell there's nothing that does the job in the Ubuntu repositories; Qcad is there (which I use) and can open dwg files, but given a .dxf file I needed a way to convert it.
levmatta
April 23rd, 2008, 09:16 PM
I would also like to see LX-Viewer on Ubuntu (Hardy).
Thanks
BambooClaw
May 3rd, 2008, 10:26 AM
I would like to see it included in Hardy as well.
Berduchwal
December 2nd, 2008, 07:29 PM
I would be interested in this in 8.10.
pigphish
February 6th, 2009, 04:55 AM
also interested in 8.10
bwakkie
February 29th, 2012, 05:28 PM
From now on you can just install a linux version:

http://www.opendesign.com/files/guestdownloads/TeighaFileConverter/teighafileconverter_3.5.1_i386.deb

Just tested it and works in Ubuntu 11.10

Start TeighaFileConverter in your terminal.
Just call me Oldmate
March 15th, 2012, 02:47 AM
bwakkie, Thanks but could I be a pain and ask for some step-by-step instructions on how to install. I'm a bit of a noob, only having seen the light 6 months ago, and I'm not getting a good result. I've trawled the net on how to use terminal properly but to no avail.

I opened terminal and wrote "sudo apt-get install TeighaFileConverter" but got "E: Could not find package TeighaFileConverter" as reply.

I searched through and found the package that was downloaded when I clicked on the link you provided but I don't understand how to use archive manager to extract it or where to extract it to or even if I'm extracting the right thing to extract!! Like I said.....NOOB!

I'd be grateful for any help

Regards Brad
Just call me Oldmate
April 6th, 2012, 11:35 PM
I found a program called DraftSight which can read, write and convert between .dxf and .dwg files. It's a pretty good 2D CAD program to use aswell. As of April 7 2012, it wasn't listed in Software Centre. I had to download it from the website.

To install, I found this thread exceedingly useful.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1936716&highlight=draftsight

I hope this helps someone