progeCAD is one product that uses "DWGdirect" from the Open Design Alliance(ODA) to efficiently read write convert and edit DWG files. For those of you not following the news about the expensive litigation Autodesk has been attacking the ODA with continually, here is an update for our point of view:
Autodesk Escalates War on "Open DWG" Technology
One very interesting aspect revealed is that the company Bentley (Microstation) now celebrating "Interoperability" with Autodesk is actually the same company that just a year before released a study accusing Autodesk of deliberately contributing $1billion to the $11+billion wasted annually (according to NIST) just in the AEC industry due to poor file compatibility between systems.
Since little has changed about Autodesk business practices, could this new alliance with Bentley be just another ploy to eventually force everyone back to Autodesk?
Autodesk Escalates War on "Open DWG" Technology
One very interesting aspect revealed is that the company Bentley (Microstation) now celebrating "Interoperability" with Autodesk is actually the same company that just a year before released a study accusing Autodesk of deliberately contributing $1billion to the $11+billion wasted annually (according to NIST) just in the AEC industry due to poor file compatibility between systems.
Since little has changed about Autodesk business practices, could this new alliance with Bentley be just another ploy to eventually force everyone back to Autodesk?