Autodesk joins the Open Design Alliance
Autodesk joins the Open Design Alliance.
What seemed impossible has happened. Today, on the Twitter and website Open Design Alliance announced that it has joined the ODA Technology Consortium of Autodesk, a well-known developer of CAD solutions such as AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Revit and many other tools and formats used in the daily work of millions of engineers around the world.
I will quote: " Today, we're excited to announce that Autodesk is a member of the Open Design Alliance (ODA), a not-for-profit technology consortium specializing in providing support and access to design file formats. This decision demonstrates our commitment to take meaningful steps to improve our customers' experience in the AEC space.... We promised to listen better to our customers, engage in open dialogue, and do better where we fail. One of the highlighted areas was the advancement in our products in terms of international data exchange standards, in particular the need for better support for IFC, an open file format increasingly used by our AEC customers. Through Autodesk's membership in ODA, we will accelerate our progress in meeting this need. Those of you who are familiar with the history of Autodesk and ODA will understand the importance we place on providing this functionality to our customers at an accelerated pace.
The ODA IFC toolkit provides complete and flexible IFC interoperability for any desktop or web application. The toolkit, along with ODA's commitment to supporting new IFC standards, means we can easily integrate new versions as they are ratified, ensuring a more consistent data flow and faster, more streamlined performance. "
P We all hope for fruitful cooperation aimed at accelerating the work on the General Meeting of Shareholders compatibility of solutions of all CAD platforms belonging to the ODA Consortium. We would like to remind you that this type of cooperation brings benefits to all members of the consortium who contribute their solutions in kind. An example of such cooperation is Bentley, which contributed to the consortium in making the DNG specification available. As a result, in the last few years we have been able to observe a dynamic development of ODA libraries, which successively provided new functions for handling dgn files. These features allow for 100% compatibility of the commands provided by the ODA libraries, precisely because Bentley has chosen to make the full standard specification available to the ODA Consortium. At the same time, as a consortium member, Bentley uses ODA libraries in its solutions in the areas of its interest.
We hope that similar cooperation will take place in CAD exchange formats to which Autodesk holds intellectual property rights, such as DWG, IFC, RVT formats.
This decision could be a historic step and an important milestone in the CAD software market, increasing the interoperability of CAD software.
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20 Jan 2023
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