
Autodesk joins Open Design Alliance — with a catch
Autodesk announced today it is becoming a member of the Open Design Alliance, the non-profit consortium a previous Autodesk CEO characterized as “the arms merchant to my enemies.” But there […]
Autodesk announced today it is becoming a member of the Open Design Alliance, the non-profit consortium a previous Autodesk CEO characterized as “the arms merchant to my enemies.” But there […]
There is a continuing discussion taking place in public between a group of architecture firms and Autodesk over the cost and value of Revit. It started with an Open Letter […]
Open Design Alliance (ODA) is moving its annual CAD development conference to the Web. ODA DevCon 2020 Virtual Edition will be September 8, 9 and 10. The conference usually meets in […]
The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) announced the release of IntelliCAD 10.0, which it says is a “major update” with many new features. David Lorenzo, ITC President, stated, “IntelliCAD 10 is […]
A new free viewer for IFC architectural data is now available for general use from the Open Design Alliance. IFC is short for Industry Foundation Classes. It is an open […]
The Open Design Alliance (ODA) has joined LOT Network, a non-profit community of companies that builds a protective barrier for its members against patent assertion entities (PAEs or “patent trolls”). […]
A new white paper comparing Autodesk AutoCAD Web to Graebert ARES Kudo finds that Kudo “significantly” outperforms AutoCAD Web in almost every category of comparison. The white paper, “Comparing Cloud-based […]
I often hear the word “legacy” or the phrase “legacy data” to describe the use of drawings for engineering work. Yet 17 years after Autodesk bought Revit and 22 years […]
Noted CAD writer Ralph Grabowski challenges conventional wisdom about Building Information Modeling. “In the end, BIM cannot be in charge of construction; construction is in charge of BIM.” [Editor’s Note: […]
Drafting software vendors believe Autodesk is handing them an historic marketing opportunity. The two obvious leaders, Bricsys and Graebert, will update their developer and dealer networks this month. The […]
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