https://www.stress-free.co.nz/tech/building_models en https://www.stress-free.co.nz/a_good_overview_of_the_niche_aec_model_formats <div class="field-body"> <p> Everyone unfortunately knows DWG (or <a href="http://www.opendwg.org">OpenDWG</a>), DXF and <a href="http://www.autodesk.co.uk/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=452932&amp;id=5261643">DWF</a> formats from AutoDesk but there are numerous niche model formats developed for specific AEC contexts and the Web. Whilst not household names, formats like CIS/2, IFC, VRML and X3D are interesting formats in their own right. The chances of any of these formats gaining industry acceptance is pretty low but <a href="http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cis2.html">this page from the National Institute of Standards and Technology</a> provides a good rundown on each standard with referring links.</p> <p> </p> </div> <ul class="field-taxonomy-vocabulary-1"> <li> <a href="/thesis">thesis</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tech/building_models">building models</a> </li> </ul> Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:12:36 +0000 David 212 at https://www.stress-free.co.nz https://www.stress-free.co.nz/free_autodesk_dwg_viewer <div class="field-body"> AutoDesk have released a <a href="http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2005/10/new_and_free_dw.html" title="Free DWG Viewer from AutoDesk">freely downloadable dwg viewer</a>. Whilst it clocks in at a whopping 100meg and is Windows only it does finally provide a free way of natively reading dwg files using only AutoDesk software. Things could be a lot better but at least AutoDesk has a free product on the market for doing this (now they just need to do something that runs on OSX and Linux). <div> <br /></div> </div> <ul class="field-taxonomy-vocabulary-1"> <li> <a href="/thesis">thesis</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tech/autodesk">autodesk</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tech/building_models">building models</a> </li> </ul> Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:07:55 +0000 David 155 at https://www.stress-free.co.nz