Year
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Events
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1992
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Dassault
Systems decides jointly with IBM to transfer the responsibility
of CADAM to Dassault Systems of America, a company created in 1992
as a wholly owned subsidiary of Dassault Systems.
IBM agrees to acquire a minority interest in Dassault Systems. Since
then, CATIA and CADAM are progressively unified by merging the best
technological features of both systems.
|
1992
|
First
version of Visio Technical, an entry-level 2D drawing program from
Visio Corporation.
|
1992 |
AIA
CAD Layering Guidelines, First Edition - The document turned out to
be a best seller |
1992 |
Tri-Service
CADD/GIS Technology Center Established - Based on a defense review
to consolidate diverging DOD efforts |
1992
|
Autodesk
ships 3D Studio version 2 for DOS.
|
1992
|
GESTEL
introduced solidThinking for OpenStep, in 1992. In June 1993, solidThinking
was awarded as the best new application in the "CAD and 3D" category
at NeXTWORLD EXPO held in San Francisco. |
1992
|
Autodesk
ships AutoCAD Release 12 for DOS in June. Includes AutoCAD SQL Extension
(ASE)/Autodesk SQL Interface (ASI) that lets you establish links
between AutoCAD and an SQL database.
Advanced Modeling Extension (AME) release 2.1 is supported by Release
12, with region modeling and new solid primitives. AutoCAD Render
is included with AutoCAD.
Release 12 uses ADI version 4.2.
|
1992
|
By the
end of this year over 21,000 seats of Unigraphics worldwide installed.
|
1992 |
Inc.
Magazine names Deneba Software as one of America's fastest growing
companies. Deneba ArtWorks succeeds UltraPaint as entry-level graphics
app of choice. Canvas for Windows is introduced at Comdex in Las Vegas.
The Japanese version of Deneba ArtWorks ships. Deneba takes advantage
of Canvas 3.0's advanced open architecture technology and introduces
three add-on products for Canvas 3 in the form of "ToolPaks." Years
later, an entire industry would be created around this concept. |
1993
|
CAM specialist
mbp UNC Software GmbH (Cologne) acquired by Unigraphics Solutions.
|
1993
|
Unigraphics
introduces hybrid modeling, featuring both advanced parametric and
traditional constructive modeling technologies.
Company
becomes founding member of ProSTEP.
Opel
chooses Unigraphics as strategic CAD/CAM/CAE system.
|
1993
|
CATIA-CADAM
Solutions Version 4 is announced. It significantly improves product
line, robustness, open architecture, performance and ease of use.
A new « solutions » approach repackages individual software products
into ready-to-use, user-based configurations of related products.
The new CATIA software family enables a company to perform several
operations concurrently, such as designing in three dimensions,
creating engineering drawings, analyzing a product or assembly,
viewing it as a rendered image and speeding up manufacturing processes.
|
1993 |
A
committee of 16 institutions and companies and SoftSource defined
and developed SVF (Simple Vector Format) considered the most efficient
method to work with vector based drawing files on the Internet. |
1993
|
EDS Corporation
ships Unigraphics vers. 10 with the SpaceBall 3D positioning device.
|
1993 |
Autodesk
acquires MicroEngineering Solutions |
1993
|
Autodesk
ships 3D Studio version 3 for DOS. Can be used to create sophisticated
animation of AutoCAD drawings.
|
1993 |
Canvas
3.5 for Windows ships.
Canvas 3.5 for Macintosh ships.
Secret work on a complete rewrite of Canvas begins. |
1993
|
John
Hirschtick from Computervision founded a new CAD company called
SolidWorks, Inc. |
1993
|
The first
AutoCAD (Release 12) for Windows platforms. It required 8 MB RAM
and 34 MB Hard Drive space for complete installation.
The Windows version of AutoCAD includes 36 icons toolbox, allows
multiple AutoCAD sessions, separate Render window, support for Windows
GUI, DDE and OLE, as well as Drag-and-Drop and Bird's Eye view capabilities.
The AutoCAD main menu has been eliminated; After initial configuration,
AutoCAD displays the graphics screen.
AutoCAD 12 for Windows was one of the most successful CAD programs
ever.
|
1993
|
Autodesk
delivers Design Expert, an Integrated Package of AutoCAD 12 and
AutoSurf for SUN Sparc Station.
|
1993
|
In
December CINEMA 4D version 1 is released for Amiga with a resounding
success troughout Europe. |