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Monday, February 27. 2006

AutoCAD 2007 Format: Locked?

Evan Yares, lead guru at the Open Design Alliance, the guys who make libraries that read and write CAD formats like DWG, posts on his blog that the new version of AutoCAD due soon may be an Autodesk only deal.

He notes that "locks" in the file format and restrictions on reverse engineer may make it impossible for his, or perhaps any organization, to read or write the format, forcing users to use Autodesk products with that data.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 13:35 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1)

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Closed, and open, and better, oh my!
I have a love/hate relationship with Autodesk. One on hand, I love their MapGuide product . On the other hand, I hate the DWG file format. With each release, I have to worry about whether I’ll be able make Engineering’s data available...
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And why is ESRI pushing the geodatabase?
#1 Atanas Entchev (Link) on 2006-02-27 13:50 (Reply)
Yares has been saying they were going to do this since 2004 at every CAD users conference he has been at including Autodesk University until he got banned. Some people actually listened and aren't facing this problem having moved to better platforms or stayed with older versions. If Open DWG doesn't find a way around this it will be very interesting to see what happens to all those companies that will now be locked into AutoDesk no matter what they want to do.
#2 Andy (Link) on 2006-02-27 14:26 (Reply)

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