![]() It became the industry standard format and the most widely accepted format for transferring complex surface information, such as NURBS curves (see Chapter 7 for more information.) In 1979 Boeing, General Electric and NIST developed a neutral file format as a contract from Air Space called IGES (Initial Graphic Exchange Standard).In 1978 the Computer Graphics Newsletter, a two year old publication founded by Joel Orr, became Computer Graphics World magazine.MiniCAD became the best selling CAD program on the Macintosh. was founded and the first version of MiniCAD was shipped. 3D was still very hard to work with on a PC and it was not until a later release that CADKEY was able to become a serious player as a 3D wireframe layout tool and for drafting. In 1985 Peter Smith and Livingston Davies founded Micro-Control Systems and released CADKEY, the first 3D PC CAP product. In 1989 Autodesk purchased Generic Software and the Generic CADD program. It would become the world’s largest independent CAD publication. In 1986 CADENCE magazine was established for the AutoCAD user community. Compared with its more expensive sibling, LT lacked the AutoLISP programming language and other programming interfaces, some 3D capability, and a few other features. A lower-cost version, AutoCAD LT was first introduced in 1993. AutoCAD running on PCĪutoCAD 2004 was released in March 2003. ![]() Version 1.0 was released in December 1982. Its file formats (DWG and its ASCII equivalent, AutoCAD DXF) became the default standard for CAD packages. Initially for mechanical engineers, it was extended and was very widely used by architects and other design professionals. Versions for Unix and Apple Macintosh were released, but these met with limited market acceptance and were later dropped. It originally ran only on Microsoft operating systems. Autodesk productsĪutoCAD is a Computer Assisted Design (CAD) software package for 2D and 3D design and drafting. It was shown at the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas as the first CAD program in the world to run on a PC. That product turned out to be AutoCAD, which was based on a CAD program written in 1981 by Mike Riddle called MicroCAD, changed later to Interact. They did this with the notion that one of the applications would take off and be developed further. He and the other 15 co-founders set off to develop five different desktop automation applications. Autodesk Autodesk employees (founder John Walker in center)Īutodesk was founded in 1982 by John Walker.
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