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ODA begins MCAD SDK development
Will support popular 3D mechanical CAD formats.
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Open Design Alliance Summit 2022
Addressing the issues of Scan to BIM for existing buildings and making the translation of proprietary MCAD formats more user-friendly. ...
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Open Design Alliance pushes horizons for data integration
As DWG–DGN becomes established, ODA turns sights to BIM and manufacturing file formats. The Open Design Alliance conference has become ...
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The ODA Virtual Summit is planned for September 21st
Presentations will focus on new CAD and BIM interoperability, IFC updates, and more. The Open Design Alliance, a consortium of ...
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ODA updates its Drawings SDK and Visualize SDK
Open Design Alliance has been expanding its focus on DWG interoperability and adding additional formats and capabilities. This year, ODA ...
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Autodesk joins Open Design Alliance
Autodesk’s latest response to the open letter. It was not long ago when Autodesk received an open letter from customers ...
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ODA adds full ReCap support to Drawings 2020
Last fall in Milan at their annual developers' meeting, the ODA outlined a long menu of capabilities under development by their team including support for Autodesk ReCap, which processes photo/scanner data into usable point clouds for visualization and design work. Now it's here.
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ODA makes good on promises
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
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
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.
