http://insight.designworldonline.com/2008/05/10/a-kink-in-the-digital-pipeline/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://insight.designworldonline.com/2008/05/10/a-kink-in-the-digital-pipeline/#comment-67 MattMurphy Fri, 30 May 2008 10:21:00 +0000 http://insight.designworldonline.com/?p=38#comment-67 I believe the modern thought consensus is in freedom of choice for the CAD operators - as long as there is a platform that all parties can collaborate with. Where I work we use the DWF viewer. On a recent project we used AutoCAD MEP and a client used CATIA. We were able to work together using a combined model. It worked great and neither of us were hindered by CAD standards or using software that we were unfamiliar with. I believe the modern thought consensus is in freedom of choice for the CAD operators - as long as there is a platform that all parties can collaborate with. Where I work we use the DWF viewer. On a recent project we used AutoCAD MEP and a client used CATIA. We were able to work together using a combined model. It worked great and neither of us were hindered by CAD standards or using software that we were unfamiliar with.

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