Year
|
Events
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1990
|
ACIS
1.0 ships
|
1990
|
Bentley
Systems announces that the installed base of MicroStation reaches
100,000.
MicroStation expands to range of products
|
1990
|
McDonnell
Douglas (now Boeing) chooses Unigraphics as the corporate standard
for mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE
|
1990
|
Autodesk
ships Animator Pro, a 2D painting and animation program for DOS.
By 1993 over 15,000 copies have been sold worldwide.
|
1990
|
Visionary
Design Systems Inc. is founded as an industry pioneer in solid modeling
technology.
|
1990
|
Visio
Corporation is founded and start producing graphics and drawings
software.
|
1990
|
Autodesk
ships in October AutoCAD Release 11 with network support features
which allow the installation of a single copy of AutoCAD on a network
server. Release 11 comes with the largest list of enhancements to
date. Paper Space is used for the first time.
ADS was added for use on most platforms. ADI (Autodesk Device
Interface) version 4.1 was provided primarily to facilitate
optimal usage of display drivers when using Paper Space facility.
|
1990
|
Auto
Shade version 2 from Autodesk is an add-on for AutoCAD 11 that allowed
to shade 3D models produced with AME. Autodesk Renderman was an
addition for AutoCAD 12.
|
1990 |
Intergraph was ranked No. 1 supplier of computer-aided design, manufacturing,
and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) systems in North America and No. 2 in
the world |
1990
|
By the
end of this year, Autodesk has sold 500,000 copies of AutoCAD, 300,000
copies of Generic CAD and 200,000 copies of Auto Sketch.
At the time the three products were the world's top three best selling
CAD programs.
|
1990
|
AutoCAD
has won since 1990, "The Best CAD Product" awards from Byte magazine
every year for the next 8 years. (Byte magazine started its award
in 1990).
|
1991
|
Since
1991, Microsoft developed Open GL for use with Windows NT. Open
GL is an API procedural software interface for producing 3D graphics
and includes approximate 120 commands to draw various primitives
such as points, lines, and polygons.
Also includes support for shading, texture mapping, anti-aliasing,
lighting and animation, atmospheric effects such as fogging and
simulation of depth-of-field.
Open GL, developed by Silicon Graphics, is a standard for the 3D
color graphics programming and rendering.
|
1991
|
GE Aircraft
Engine and GE Power Generation select Unigraphics as their CAD/CAM
system
|
1991 |
The
Delta company, the developer of DUCT, was renamed Delcam International
and changed it's status to plc (Public Limited Company). |
1991
|
EDS acquires
the Unigraphics Division, renames the company Unigraphics Solutions
UG/MX for CADAM to UG migration developed in strategic initiative
with Fujitsu
|
1991 |
The
first Japanese version of UltraPaint ships. Canvas 3.0 is released
concurrently with Apple's System 7 and takes the industry by storm.
The long list of industry firsts include: support for all System 7
technologies including QuickTime, next-generation open architecture,
font conversion to Bezier curves, object combinations, text on a curve,
advanced typographic features, SmartMouse, SmartLines, vector gradients
and much more. This quickly leads to numerous industry awards including
Best Drawing program (MacUser) and Best Illustration Program (MacWeek).
Canvas 3.0 goes international in a big way with the introduction of
Japanese, Swedish, French, German, Italian and Spanish versions. |
1991
|
Varimetrix
Corporation ships first version of its Varimetrix CAD/CAM product.
|
1991
|
The first
move of Autodesk to enter in architectural market with ArcCAD
|
1991
|
Computervision
acquires Promise. Inc.
|
1991
|
Varimetrix
develops a true hybrid geometric modeler and CAD system.
|
1991
|
The first
AutoCAD for SUN platforms.
|