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Autodesk Suing to Keep Format Closed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the haven't-we-been-through-this-before dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AutoCAD is by far the industry standard CAD tool for engineering drawings. When I was an engineering student it was on every computer in the college of engineering. Autodesk, the makers of the AutoCAD software, are attempting to quash an effort to reverse-engineer the proprietary binary format used by AutoCAD. Looking at the court order, their whole argument revolves around something called TrustedDWG that basically looks like a digital signature that verifies the file was created by an Autodesk product."

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  1. To everyone complaining about 2D: by gregorio · · Score: 0, Troll

    Autodesk has also 3D products that are not only comparable to SolidWorks, but better at some aspects. One of them is the AutoDesk Inventor line.

    So stop BS-ing about 2D, the evolution of CAD, and how AutoDesk is late on "obvious changes" in the market, while talking crap (and trying to look smart while doing it) about SolidWorks and other offers.

    Just because you heard about SolidWorks while trying to build an open-source MMORPG, that does not make you a CAD expert.

  2. cost? by mungtor · · Score: 0, Troll

    But is it free, open source, and runs under linux? 'cause if it doesn't nobody should use it.