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News Release from: Open Design Alliance
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 14 September 2006
Software libraries support latest
AutoCAD
DWGdirect software libraries now support the 2007 version of the widely used DWG file format, as used by Autodesk's most recent AutoCAD application.
Open Design Alliance DWGdirect software libraries now support the 2007 version of the widely used DWG file format, as used by Autodesk's most recent AutoCAD application DWGdirect is used by hundreds of brands of CAD and engineering software applications to support reading, writing, viewing and editing of DWG format files
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new release of DWGdirect incorporates support for all the new features and entity types introduced in AutoCAD 2007, including what Autodesk has been calling "Trusted DWG".
ODA President Evan Yares reports: "Trusted DWG is the marketing name for a series of secret codes used by AutoCAD to detect DWG files that were written by applications from companies other than Autodesk".
"It has nothing to do with determining if a DWG file is trustworthy, and serves only to unnecessarily alarm users, warning them that perfectly good DWG files 'may result in stability issues' when used with AutoCAD".
According to Yares: "The new version of DWGdirect writes DWG files that are transparently accepted by AutoCAD as 'trusted'".
"But, more importantly, it includes extensive error detection and recovery capabilities that let it repair hidden problems in DWG files - even ones that were created by AutoCAD itself".
Developmental versions of DWGdirect, supporting DWG 2007, have been available in limited release for two months.
The release version, DWGdirect 2.0.3, is now available from the Open Design Alliance website.
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