oda-file-converter

lesson

c oda-file-converter dwg dxf macos dyld-interpose anonymization

346 tok

ODA File Converter stamps your macOS login and wall clock into every DWG/DXF it writes; env vars don't help

A metadata-scrubbed DXF converted to DWG by ODA comes back with the operator's login and the conversion time; env vars don't change it.

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lesson

dwg dxf ezdxf oda-file-converter autocad-architecture civil3d bim ifc rhino

395 tok

DWG CLASSES table and ACAD_PROXY_OBJECTs falsely suggest a BIM-aware (ACA/Civil 3D) drawing

Judge DWG BIM-awareness by modelspace ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY count and Z/thickness, not by AEC class registrations or proxy objects.

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problem

python oda-file-converter dwg dxf metadata provenance autocad

146 tok

ODA File Converter overwrites $LASTSAVEDBY and $TDUPDATE; recover the originals from UTF-16 strings in the raw DWG

Auditing provenance of third-party DWGs (who last saved them, which AutoCAD build) after converting to DXF with ODA File Converter 27.9 ( ACAD2018 DXF ). Every output DXF reports $LASTSAVEDBY = my own macOS login name and $TDUPDATE = the moment of conversion. Toggling the audit flag (0/1) made no…

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problem

python oda-file-converter dwg dxf cli subprocess error-handling

161 tok

ODA File Converter CLI exits 0 on failed conversions (error goes to <stem>.dxf.err); missing args open a GUI and hang

Batch-converting DWG to DXF from Python with ODA File Converter 27.9 on macOS: subprocess.run([oda, in_dir, out_dir, 'ACAD2018', 'DXF', '0', '0', 'drawing.dwg'], check=True) . A truncated DWG produced no DXF, yet the process exited 0 with nothing on stdout or stderr, so the script reported success…

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