DXF is offered as a "Save as" option, but doesn't work

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Author Name: Alister Hood (@AlisterH)
Original Redmine Issue: 3004

Redmine category:data_provider

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I thought I'd test the new ability to export to any OGR supported format. This is the resulting error message:

Export to vector file failed.
Error: creation of field Id failed (OGR error: DXF layer does not support arbitrary field creation.)

Maybe there's a way to actually produce a working dxf by automatically deleting and/or renaming attribute fields or something?

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Author Name: Stephan66 - (Stephan66 -)

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Save as DXF doesn't work here either.

Using Qgis 1.5.0, (libgdal1 version 1.7.1) from the Build Service on openSuSE 11.2 (64-bit).

When trying to save a vector layer (shape) as dxf, I get the following error:

Error: creation of data source failed (OGR error:Failed to find template header file header.dxf for reading, is GDAL_DATA set properly?)

Checked: There is no environment setting GDAL_DATA on my system.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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fixed in .

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• resolution was configured as fixed
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Stephan66 - (Stephan66 -)

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This problem is not fixed at all.

Tested on openSuSE 11.4, with:
gpsbabel 1.4.2-16.1
grass 6.4.1-1.14
grass-docs 6.4.1-1.14
libgdal-grass 1.4.3-15.17
libgdal1 1.8.0-1.8
libgeoclue0 0.12.0-6.1
libgeos0 3.2.2-1.pm.1.3
libgeotiff2 1.3.0-1.pm.1.1
libnetcdf4 4.0.1-17.1
libopenjpeg2_0 2.0.0-1.pm.1.1
libproj0 4.7.0-1.pm.1.3
libqwt5 5.2.1-3.3
netcdf 4.0.1-17.1
proj4 4.7.0-1.pm.1.3
python-gdal 1.8.0-1.8
python-numpy 1.5.1-17.2
qgis 1.7.0-2.1
qgis-plugin-grass 1.7.0-2.1

Checked for openSuSE 11.4: No environment setting GDAL_DATA on my system.

This issue needs to be reopened.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Saving as DXF works fine under Ubuntu Natty and qgis 1.7

I tested to "save as..." dxf a shapefile and also a dxf file and worked.

The problem I see is that if the user forgets to add the extension to the oupfile, the file is saved as .d and not as .dxf

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• assigned_to_id removed nobody
• resolution was changed from fixed to

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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It works also under Windows. I'll close again, please give it another try as it is probably a local installation problem.

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• resolution was changed from to fixed

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Author Name: Stephan66 - (Stephan66 -)

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You where right, Giovanni!

The message

Error: creation of data source failed (OGR error:Failed to find template header file header.dxf for reading, is GDAL_DATA set properly?)

was indeed caused a local installation problem.

The Build Service package gdal needs to be installed to prevent it.