indesign said:
At some point they will have a better file type to include things the old stuff just can not handle but we never know if a new development could change everything to it's core.
This is a particularly
hot button issue for me. The entire
point of a
neutral data format is to make the
specific brand of CAD software irrelevant to the overall design & development
process! Within reason, the CAD tool you use should be a
personal choice rather than a
dictated choice -- just as whether you used a swing-arm drafting machine, track drafting machine, or a pair of triangles to create the layouts and drawings of the manual drafting era. As somebody who "invested" a decade of my life to promoting such standards (under the aegis of ANSI and the National Bureau of Standards) is has been a
shame filled trial to watch the corporate and national (political) interests derail this worthy goal over and over.
One of the reasons I became an early
booster of Alibre was their intelligent use of the ISO-10303 data format as the basis of their work. Yes, I am still "upset" over the failure of ANSI to promote PDES and irate beyond belief over the destruction of the National Bureau of Standards through the creation of the National Institute of Standards Technology to a degree that few understand. The fire currently burning at the natural gas pumping station in SE Washington State (and threatening the NW US and SW Canadian distribution networks) is a
direct result of this untenable belief that
corporations are better at management than
governments are! Americans are currently being misdirected in the attention being paid to the
corporate decision that saving $0.59 in the cost of a spring was more important than the safety of drivers & passengers -- a decision that was made in 1999 & reinforced in 2006, but for whom those who made that decision are beyond the reach of legal jurisdiction thanks to our weirder than strange laws!
