writing DWG files from scrach

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I am writing a 3d surface modeling program for boat design and I want to be able to create DWG files to export to a cnc machine. Does any one know the structure of the DWG format. I know it is a vector format, but I would need the exact details to create a file.

Posted 13-Mar-12 5:45am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2012-03-13T06:26:00

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Posted 13-Mar-12 6:26am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Mar-12 19:58pm

Not exactly. The format is very, very cryptic, done so on purpose.
To work with it, I has to use expensive subscription of Open Design Alliance and later a product of some 3rd-party. Not easy at all.
--SA

Richard MacCutchan 14-Mar-12 5:24am

I didn't expect it to be easy, but that is neither here nor there. I was pointing OP to the starting place for questions such as this.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Mar-12 12:24pm

Well, fair enough. A 5.
--SA