Opinion It was pretty exciting when, 11 years ago, a new kind of CAD company emerged, several seemingly at the same time. They were pure cloud-CAD plays, taking advantage of new capabilities in Web browsers that allowed us to select and edit entities. The companies had names like sunglass.io, TinkerCAD, To3D, and Onshape. All ended up being acquired by larger firms. After the Open Design Alliance cracked the RVT and RFA file formats of Revit, a second wave of CAD companies emerged two years ago, with names like Infurnia, Snaptrude, and Qonic. All three handle some aspect of architectural design... Read more →
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