Vector GDAL

Menu: Files→Import→Vector GDAL...

With this option it is possible to read some kind of vector image formats, and convert them to surfaces.

The typical use is to convert topographic related files.

This importer is implemented as a Tcl plugin, using the GDAL package (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library).
Some of the allowed raster formats are .shp, dxf, geojson, svg, etc.

There are some two extra options:

Merge: To start a new clean project of to add to the current one
Create conditions: some format like shapefile can have attached a dbase file with tables of data associated to surfaces that can be converted to GiD classical conditions with the required question fields to store the data.