|The CAD industry is entering unknown waters, in terms of technology changes. The cloud, for many software firms, is seen as the ultimate destination for everything: applications, data, communication, processing, AI — you name it. However, the design software world is still predominantly about applications which run on local hardware.

In the BIM world we hardly ever talk about the evolution of 2D in pursuit of the ultimate model definition. While industry leader Autodesk stagnates the development of AutoCAD, competitors such as Gräbert are sensing an opportunity to improve the way documents are produced from BIM models, writes Martyn Day.|

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