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ODA announces Navisworks files support from its BimNv SDK

March 24, 2022

Ruchika Saini

Open Design Alliance, which provides interoperability solutions for CAD and BIM, has made available a new Autodesk Navisworks export capability ...

Open Design Alliance pushes horizons for data integration

October 12, 2021

Kathleen Maher

As DWG–DGN becomes established, ODA turns sights to BIM and manufacturing file formats. The Open Design Alliance conference has become ...

ODA updates its Drawings SDK and Visualize SDK

June 28, 2021

Ruchika Saini

Open Design Alliance has been expanding its focus on DWG interoperability and adding additional formats and capabilities. This year, ODA ...

Autodesk joins Open Design Alliance

September 23, 2020

Ruchika Saini

Autodesk’s latest response to the open letter. It was not long ago when Autodesk received an open letter from customers ...

Advancing the capabilities of CAD. At the annual DevCon event, ODA and its member companies demonstrated the strength of open standards and the organization’s ability to meet the demands of end customers.

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The Open Design Alliance readies new tools for 2020

July 23, 2019

Kathleen Maher

The Open Design Alliance’s season of press releases is here and the quantity of information is greater than ever as ...

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New releases tumble out of the ODA

January 31, 2019

Kathleen Maher

The Open Design Alliance has shipped new releases of its software at the opening of 2019 including updates for Visualize, Drawings, Civil 2019.2, which now has clash detection. Clash detection is especially used in piping applications, but also for AEC and any engineering process. It can be set to run on a static model to find all clashes and it can be associated with objects to detect clashes as objects are moved.