After the Beta release of DWG 2010 support in September of this year, DWGdirect, with its new DWG 2010 file support, underwent an in-depth progression of additional verification and enhancement.  The release of DWGdirect version 3.2 marks an 8-month development cycle after the release Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2010 earlier this year.

Neil Peterson, Chief Technical Officer of the ODA, stated, “Our timely release of DWG 2010 file support, which undoubtedly is critical for the ongoing success of our members, emphasizes the commitment we made several years ago to provide ongoing support of new DWG file format versions.  As part of this commitment, our newly expanded quality assurance team has greatly increased our testing efforts across all platforms during the past year, making DWGdirect 3.2 the most heavily tested version the ODA has ever released.  We expect that this production release will be adopted immediately by our members.”

DWGdirect is available immediately at www.opendesign.com for download by ODA members world-wide.

About the Open Design Alliance

The Open Design Alliance is a non-profit consortium of over 2,000 software developers and users committed to promoting open, industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data and CAD legacy data.  The ODA technology platform provides users with the tools to create a wide range of applications, including custom data access and editing utilities, visualization tools, and even full-scale CAD systems.  The platform also supports the use of both DWG and DGN files, with import and export capabilities to other file formats.  The Open Design Alliance maintains the OpenDWG® library and publishes the OpenDWG file specification.