SOFTWARE DATE DEVELOPER DEFINITION/CONTRI

Pronto 1957 Patrick Hanratty First commercial numerical control programming

system that sparked everything that is cad
Sketchpad 1960 Ivan Sutherland first to ever use a total graphic user interface
users wrote with a light pen on an x-y pointer display
constrain properties in a drawing, created the use of
“objects” and “instances”.
ADAM 1971 Patrick Hanratty work on virtually every machine, a huge hit that went
on to be updated to work on 16 and 32-bit computers
today 80% of cad programs can be traced back to the
roots of ADAM
IGES 1980 U.S. National Let’s users transfer their 3d designs between CAD
Bureau of software programs
Standards as NBSIR allows the digital exchange of information among
80-1978. computer-aided design
CATIA 1981 Dassault Systemes is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided
design.
Becomes world's leading software solution for
engineering and product design
AUTOCAD 1982 Autodesk first 2d design cad software made for pcs instead of
mainframe computers
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PRO/ENGINEE 1987 Parametric first mainstream CAD program that took the ideas of
R Technology Sketchpad
Corporation (PTC) huge turn in cad history because it completely
knocked out any competition
was the industry's first rule-based constraint
(sometimes called "parametric" or "variational") 3D
CAD modeling system.
AUTODESK 1994 Autodesk Made the Autodesk program 3D compatible
AUTOCAD R13

STEP 1994 file formats that supports all CAD software

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SOLIDWORKS 1995 Dassault Systemes allowed more engineers than ever to take advantage
95 of 3d cad technology.
SOLID EDGE 1995 Siemens provides solid modeling, assembly modeling, and 2D
orthographic view
made as a PLM Software (Product Lifecycle
Management)
AUTODESK 1999 Autodesk tried to be more intuitive and simpler, also allowed
INVENTOR the creation of complex assemblies in record time

AUTODESK 360 2012 Autodesk Moved CAD to the cloud