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History of CAD
The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering and Manufacturing. A "Brief" History of CAD by David E. Weisberg
The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of EngineeringBy David E. Weisberg This book has been over five years in the making and is now freely available on this web site for your personal use. In return for free access to over 650 pages of material discussing the people, companies and products that made the CAD industry what it is today, I am asking readers contribute whatever they wish to a foundation that means very much to me. Foreword Introduction Brief Overview Computer-Aided Design Strong Roots at MIT Research in the Second Half of the 1960s Civil Engineering Software Development at MIT The First Commercial CAD System Applicon Autodesk and AutoCAD Auto-trol Technology Bentley Systems Calma Computervision IBM/Lockheed/Dassault Systèmes Intergraph Patrick Hanratty and Manufacturing & Consulting Services Parametric Technology Corporation Structural Dynamics Research Corporation SolidWorks Siemens PLM Software (UGS) Tom Lazear and VersaCAD Miscellaneous Companies Analysis Companies
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