" We do not believe in troubling our customers more than we need to. In fact, I once posed this question to a senior Autodesk executive. And that would give it less time and resources to do other stuff like building an alternative DWG based CAD platform, which is far more damaging to Autodesk than a reverse engineered DWG read/write SDK. Since it takes about a year for the ODA to completely reverse engineer a new DWG format, if Autodesk changed the DWG format every year, that would keep the ODA on its toes all year round. I have always wondered why Autodesk has this self imposed three year cycle for the DWG format. Full support for DWG 2010 is expected at the end of year. Thereafter we will add native support for the new entities and other stuff that has been added to the DWG 2010 format." Seems like things are going according to plan. " We will first release a version of the SDK that reads and writes the current set of entities so that our members can add initial DWG and DXF support to their products. When I met Neil Peterson, the CTO of the ODA, at the ODA World Conference in Leiden, Holland, I asked him how DWG 2010 was treating him. But I guess that will change in due course of time. However, some new objects introduced in AutoCAD 2010 such as AcDbGeoData, AcDbSubDMesh and constraint related objects are loaded as proxies. The new SDK supports DWG as well as DXF files created by AutoCAD 2010.
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Today the ODA let its members know that they could download DWGdirect 3.0.0, the alpha release of the new version of the DWGdirect SDK that can read and write the DWG 2010 format.