# Open Design Alliance

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/open-design-alliance/  
**Website:** https://www.opendesign.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Open Design Alliance (ODA) is a non‑profit consortium that provides developers with tools and libraries to create, view, and edit CAD (Computer‑Aided Design) files across multiple platforms. Founded in 1998, ODA offers the Teigha platform, which supports a wide range of DWG, DGN, and other industry‑standard formats, enabling interoperability among CAD applications. The organization focuses on fostering collaboration among its member companies, delivering high‑quality SDKs, documentation, and support for building robust engineering and design software solutions. Through its open‑source initiatives and extensive developer resources, ODA empowers engineers, architects, and software developers to integrate advanced CAD capabilities into their products, accelerating innovation in the design and manufacturing sectors.

## Kin Score — 29.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-10-31 under rubric 0.25.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 48.2 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Access Clarity | 65.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 21.6 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 13.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |

## Security (2)

- **Open Design Alliance Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DMARC
- **Open Design Alliance Vulnerability Disclosure** — no policy recorded

## Plans (1)

- **Open Design Alliance Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, CAD, SDK, OpenSource, Consortium

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/open-design-alliance/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.