"Most companies bought Computer Aided Design softwares to get rid of Manually doing drafting or anything for that matter, not the idea of giving electronic files to any body"
You did exactly in the point. I have said in dozens of posts that issues of ownership, interoperability, and sharing, also the 3D, comes from the relationship between that paradigm shift and ADSK marketing.
I created a post named "To whom the dwg belongs to" to point that we are immerses in a big problem that nobody here sees it: we have a standard file, which becomes standard for external causes (internet effect), but we don't have any agency for ruling the standardization, and we use that file for sharing!
I remember in the ACAD beginings there was the believe that "if you change your drafting table, maylar and pencil for computer, keyboard and mouse, you have to change your procedures also" That change haven arrived yet, at least in the majority here.
Can yo imagine if you contractor give you a bunch of maylar drawings, but lets say, cutted in little pieces, like a puzzle or something like that? So you have to put together all that pieces before you can use the information in that drawing? Who pays for repairing or adapting an external drawing to fit our requirments? Lets say you have your own cad standard and you inquire to your contarctor uses that before they send you the file. But you are not the only contractor client. Who pays to the contractor that custom standard for each client like you.
Client, contractor, ADSK, who? In the case of maylars drawings we had (and have) ANSI, DIM or whatever code we use. We stiil need another code to prepares the layers, block, views and other dwg subproducts, before interchange the dwg file. Who will create that code?
One person, like that unique person in the AUGI wish list?, wrong!
It have to be a council, a group, for inside ACAD users, and for outside ACAD users.
But first we need to figure out to whom belogns the dwg to:
If we own the dwg format we are responsible to fix it. If ADSK owns, ADSK has to fix it. Somebody have to do it.
Finally I have to say you this: in this DG there are some blinds propaganda alienate attacking this type of posting, so don't lose your time.
Its just matter of time. I know it.