That's one of the possible solutions, other solution would be suggesting other similar non-proprietary file formats (DWG, PDF or IFC, like in Denmark), but I believe that the best solution should pass by the upgrading of Archicad to correctly export DWF, because it seems to me that Lisbon is not turning back on this decision. We've been told that there is a ongoing process against Lisbon's Municipality in the European Court of Justice, so far with no results. Meanwhile, if that's not possible, Graphisoft should negotiate an exception or transition period. We think that Graphisoft should provide a definitive solution to the problem in order to protect their customers.
We know that several costumers and consultants have provided feedback through, Archicad's reseller in Portugal, without results (specially in the Mac platform). It's my conviction that by doing so the Lisbon Municipality has excluded and hurted several architects, including ourselves.Īs they claim, the introduction of DWF and the consequent simplification of procedures is considered a success and is now being introduced in several other municipalities in Portugal and showcased in other countries. In fact, because it is an Autodesk proprietary file format, several other software are unable to correctly meet the municipality standards (for example, also Autodesk's conversion software isn't available for Mac OSX). Although we understand that this modernization process was somehow unavoidable, the chosen file format introduces several problems. As a result of that all projects on this municipality must be submitted in this format or else they will be rejected. In November 2007 Lisbon's Municipality introduced Autodesk DWF as the standard file format for file sharing and interchangeability, with the approvals of a Law.
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