Computer-aided design (CAD) specialist Autodesk late last week reversed a long-standing policy and released free viewing software for its proprietary DWG file format, which has long been the standard ...

The bentley brothers believe that architects, engineers and contractors own the intellectual property rights to their data and should be able to access and reuse that content whenever and wherever.

An innocent change to an AutoCAD file format has cut sharply into the ability of some WAN acceleration solutions to speed the transfer of these files, and caused grumblings in some widely distributed ...