Open Design Alliance pushes horizons for data integration

The Open Design Alliance conference has become a sprawling affair. Each year, the working groups present their work for the year and member companies show how they’ve been putting ODA technology to work. They are a productive bunch, and after a decade or so of banging on the challenges of CAD documentation, the group developed a very long list of capabilities and changes. More begets more. The partners have become ambitious expanding the original goal of ODA far beyond enabling interoperability between drawing file formats such as AutoCAD’s native DWG and Bentley MicroStation’s DGN and into opening up Autodesk’s Revit