Re: New .dxf to .elmt Conversion Program

Salut Laurent,

I don't have the binaries up on the release page yet, but I've fixed the bug that was causing you issues running it from QElectrotech on your Mac.

If it can it creates the log file, but if it fails, it just skips it and logs to stderr.

https://github.com/Vadoola/dxf2elmt/releases/tag/v0.5.1

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Re: New .dxf to .elmt Conversion Program

Hallo and thanks Vadoola,

macOS_x86_64 for Intel macOS

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Re: New .dxf to .elmt Conversion Program

Hello,

I'm Christophe from France, I use QElectrotech to design the electric schema of our future house.
Thx to all for your fantastic job :-)

I need to use recent KNX MDT modules and theses modules are not in default QT library.
So I would like to convert dxf files provided by MDT to elmt files.

I use the last version binary dxf2elmt.exe downloaded from this topic link. Not sure this is the last binary version regarding github speaking about 5.0.1. Unfortunately, except error, I dont found the 5.0.1 Windows X64 bnary.

C:\Users\christophe\Downloads\dxf2elmt>dxf2elmt.exe --version
dxf2elmt 0.4.0

I obtain an elmt file only with polygon object from the attached dxf file.

Any help would be very appreciated.
Best regards
Christophe

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Bonsoir Christophe,

si tu avais partagé le DXF dans ton post il serait possible de voir ce qui ne fonctionne pas.


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Need to use last 100-dev!

https://github.com/Vadoola/dxf2elmt/rel … f2elmt.exe

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Re: New .dxf to .elmt Conversion Program

Salut Christophe,

totofe64 wrote:

I need to use recent KNX MDT modules and theses modules are not in default QT library.
So I would like to convert dxf files provided by MDT to elmt files.

I use the last version binary dxf2elmt.exe downloaded from this topic link. Not sure this is the last binary version regarding github speaking about 5.0.1. Unfortunately, except error, I dont found the 5.0.1 Windows X64 bnary.

C:\Users\christophe\Downloads\dxf2elmt>dxf2elmt.exe --version
dxf2elmt 0.4.0

I obtain an elmt file only with polygon object from the attached dxf file.

Any help would be very appreciated.
Best regards
Christophe

Version 0.4.0 is not the latest version. The latest version is what Laurent linked above and is version 0.5.1.

I actually just noticed that I forgot to bump the version in the cargo.toml file, so even though it is version 0.5.1, if you run dxf2elmt --version it will say it's version 0.5.0. There were some large changes and new features between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 so it's possible the file that is failing in 0.4.0 will work in 0.5.0.

I'm not seeing any linked dxf files, and a quick glance shows several versions of KNX MDT modules. If it still fails to convert correctly once you download 0.5.1 can you link to the dxf files so I can find out where it's failing and try to fix it?

Thanks

Re: New .dxf to .elmt Conversion Program

Hello Vadoola.
I’m starting to use QElectroTech now, and I’d like to import some Siemens symbols into QElectroTech, such as the ET200SP remote I/O. I’d like to import its connections and terminals. For this type of application, can I use the program that converts DWG into ELMT? And how do I use this program?

Re: New .dxf to .elmt Conversion Program

I’m a beginner when it comes to programming, and I’m not managing to use the software. Do you have any tutorial on how to use this software on Windows? If you could help me, I’d be very grateful.

Re: New .dxf to .elmt Conversion Program

Hi joao.silveira

joao.silveira wrote:

I’m a beginner when it comes to programming, and I’m not managing to use the software. Do you have any tutorial on how to use this software on Windows? If you could help me, I’d be very grateful.

I don't have a tutorial specifically but I can try and walk you through some steps quickly
- Launch QElectrotech
- Under Collections->User Collection (typically on the right hand side of the QET Window) right click on User Collection
- Click "New Element" in the pop up menu
- Select the folder you wan to put it in and click "Next"
- give it a file name, and click "Next"
- give it an element name, and click "Finish"

This will launch the Element Editor. From the Element Editor Window follow the below steps
- File->Import a dxf
- If you don't have the dxf2elmt software placed in the correct folder, it will open a popup window saying it can't find it. There will be a download button, which you should probably ignore, and a button to open the installation folder. Click that and drop a copy of dxf2elmt in that folder (there are Windows and Debian versions you can download from https://github.com/Vadoola/dxf2elmt/releases, and scorpio810 has attached some MacOS versions up a few comments in this thread).

Once you have the dxf2elmt program installed in the correct folder:
- go to File->Import a dxf
- In the popup select the dxf file and click ok.

That should pretty much be it, but you will need to add terminals and such yourself to connect wires to them in QElectrotech.




joao.silveira wrote:

For this type of application, can I use the program that converts DWG into ELMT? And how do I use this program?

The dxf2elmt program specifically converts DXF files, NOT DWG files. If you only have a DWG file you would need to convert it to a DXF first, there are some various programs available to do this, LibreCAD and QCad should be able to, I believe FreeCAD as well, but have less experience with it.

Hopefully this helps.