Comment 11 for bug 170440

As a minimum, in the first attempt, Inkscape should be able to import LINE, POLYLINE, CIRCLE, ARC and POINT entities from a DXF file, even though color, linetype and line width information might be lost. Preserving layer information would be a big help, though not essential for a first cut. Just getting the shape geometries into Inkscape would be a tremendous help, as those could then be used for reconstructing solid shapes. I've written programs that output subsets of ASCII DXF files with just these capabilities, and that's usually been sufficient to get the job done. Also, consider being able to handle earlier versions of DXF files, back to AutoCAD Release 10 for DOS, as there are quite a few software packages that don't output the latest DXF versions.