Editing Open Design Alliance (ODA)

The Open Design Alliance (ODA) is a software consortium who have been at the forefront of challenging Autodesk dominance by providing compatibility with [[Drawing_(DWG)|DWG]] files and more recently [[Autodesk Revit]] RFA/RVT files without an Autodesk license. Their solutions are proprietary, they offer a few free services.

They are a not-for-profit member owned consortium designed to avoid outside influence or over influence from any single member(s). In 2020 Autodesk became a member of ODA (to many peoples surprise).

"The ODA Platform is a comprehensive solution for developing engineering applications, consisting of SDKs for popular CAD and BIM formats and the ODA Technology Stack, a set of building blocks for application development."

== See also ==
* [[LibreCAD]] is a free/libre alternative to AutoCAD
* [[QCAD]] is a free/libre alternative to AutoCAD
* [[BlenderBIM_Add-on]] is a free/libre alternative to Autodesk Revit
* [[FreeCAD]] is a free/libre alternative to Autodesk Revit

= External resources =
* https://www.opendesign.com/

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-[[File:ODA_logo.jpg]]The Open Design Alliance (ODA) is a software consortium who have been at the forefront of challenging Autodesk dominance by providing compatibility with [[Drawing_(DWG)|DWG]] files and more recently [[Autodesk Revit]] RFA/RVT files without an Autodesk license. They have a commercial IFC SDK solutions for integrating IFC based workflows into member software. Their solutions are proprietary, but they offer a few cost-neutral services. Their [https://www.opendesign.com/products/drawings Drawings SDK] (previously known as Teigha) supports [[Drawing_(DWG)|.dwg]] and .dgn file formats.
+The Open Design Alliance (ODA) is a software consortium who have been at the forefront of challenging Autodesk dominance by providing compatibility with [[Drawing_(DWG)|DWG]] files and more recently [[Autodesk Revit]] RFA/RVT files without an Autodesk license. Their solutions are proprietary, they offer a few free services.
-They are a not-for-profit member owned consortium designed to avoid outside influence or over influence from any single member(s). In 2020 Autodesk became a member of ODA (to many peoples surprise). Among their members (2020 buildingSMART presentation) are Oracel, Nemetschek, esri, Autodesk, Leica, BricsCAD, Siemens, Trimble, Gräbert, Graphisoft, Bentley, Vectorworks, Dassault Systemes, DDS.
+They are a not-for-profit member owned consortium designed to avoid outside influence or over influence from any single member(s). In 2020 Autodesk became a member of ODA (to many peoples surprise).
 "The ODA Platform is a comprehensive solution for developing engineering applications, consisting of SDKs for popular CAD and BIM formats and the ODA Technology Stack, a set of building blocks for application development."
-https://www.opendesign.com/products/drawings
 == See also ==
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 * [[BlenderBIM_Add-on]] is a free/libre alternative to Autodesk Revit
 * [[FreeCAD]] is a free/libre alternative to Autodesk Revit
-* [[:Category:BIM Collaboration Format (BCF)]]
 = External resources =
 * https://www.opendesign.com/
-* online DWG/DXF converter https://www.opendesign.com/oda_online_converter
-* cross platform DWG/DXF converter: https://www.opendesign.com/guestfiles/oda_file_converter
-* ODAs DWG specification: https://www.opendesign.com/files/guestdownloads/OpenDesign_Specification_for_.dwg_files.pdf
-* Free Windows only IFC viewer with BCF and (soon) MVDXML support https://openifcviewer.com/
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-[[Category:Autodesk Revit]]
-[[Category:Proprietary_software]]