www.fastcompany.com: The competitive landscape of architecture software—the digital technology that enables architects to design the buildings we all inhabit—is a lot like Star Wars. Autodesk, the company that owns industry-dominating programs like AutoCAD and Revit, is The Empire. All other software and apps are the Rebels.
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I really didn’t like the framing of Autodesk being the empire and these startups being the rebels, they introduce it and act like they’re a cruel overlord and even say they “ruled the software galaxy with an iron fist” which is just absurd. Also, the fact that departments require AutoCAD formats is nothing special. They need a format that they can edit if need be, any other format doesn’t have the information they need given there is no standard format that allows for all that information. Maybe one day there will be, but that’s not Autodesk’s fault. Adobe has a very similar market control with the Adobe suite, a large number of companies will require the files in the Adobe file not in a .png or .mp4 because this allows their own editors to go in and modify things later if they need to. There just simply isn’t a universal standard yet and so this is something that has been necessitated for now, one day when there is a universal standard that may change.
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