Bug report #3004

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

Added by Alister Hood over 13 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Low
Assignee:-
Category:Data Provider
Affected QGIS version: Regression?:No
Operating System:All Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied: Resolution:fixed
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: Copied to github as #:13064

Description

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?

History

#1 Updated by Stephan66 - over 13 years ago

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.

#2 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 13 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from Open to Closed

fixed in .

#3 Updated by Stephan66 - almost 13 years ago

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.

#4 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 13 years ago

  • Assignee deleted (nobody -)
  • Resolution deleted (fixed)

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

#5 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 13 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed

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

#6 Updated by Stephan66 - over 12 years ago

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.

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