Dear Krippahl, Albeit some the-sky-is-falling alleged Portuguese architects that have been posting here, the DWF format is only asked on some towns. By some towns you mean Lisbon (amongst others), which is only the largest city in Portugal and the th...

Before you correct me. I'm aware of ifcXML... but they still want the drawings... maybe one day we'll give them the model.

The problem is that IFC isn't suitable for what they're doing. They use DWF because it's also based on XML. To understand the difference here is a good link: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=2694038&linkID=9240615 Also i che...

Erika, they (we) should have. Some did, that is why there is a ongoing process in the EU... but Justice isn't fast enough and almost three years went by. It's also Graphisoft and other software houses interest to block this procedure or adapt to it. ...

amonle wrote:When the EU is all about open tendering, open formats etc it is totally beyond me how they could make a proprietary format mandatory - Portuguese taxpayers gifting a permanent revenue stream to an American company that can do with DWF wh...