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1950
The first graphic system was developed by US Air Force's SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) air defense system. The system was developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.
1957
Dr. Patrick J. Hanratty known as "the Father of CADD/CAM" for his pioneering contributions to the field of computer-aided design and manufacturing, developed PRONTO, the first commercial numerical-control programming system.
1960
McDonnell Douglas Automation Company (McAuto) was founded. It played a major role on CAD developments with the introduction of CADD program.
1962
SLS Environectics in Chicago began development of the Man-Mac machine, intended to draft plans for interior office space.
1965
Donald Welbourn heard a lecture to the Engineering Society by Strachey of the Mathematical Laboratory (now the Department of Computer Science) on the early work at MIT on Computer Aided Design (CAD).
1967
Dr. Jason R Lemon founds SDRC in Cincinnati.
1972
The MCS company's first product, ADAM (Automated Drafting and Machining), was released in 1972, ran on 16-bit computers, and was one of the first commercially available mechanical design packages.
1975
Electronic Data System Corporation (EDS) is founded.
1975
Avions Marcel Dassault (AMD) purchased CADAM (Computer-Augmented Drafting and Manufacturing) software equipment licenses from Lockheed thus becoming one of the very first CADAM customers.
1976
United Computing, developer of the Unigraphics CAD/CAM/CAE system, acquired by Mc Donnell Douglas Company.
1977
Avions Marcel Dassault assigned its engineering team the goal of creating a three-dimensional, interactive program, the forerunner of CATIA (Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application).
1979
Boeing, General Electric and NIST develops a neutral file format as a contract from Air Space called IGES (Initial Graphic Exchange Standard).
1981
Unigraphics introduced the first solid modeling system, UniSolid. It was based on PADL-2, and was sold as a stand-alone product to Unigraphics.
1982
CATIA Version 1 is announced as an add-on product for 3D design, surface modeling and NC programming.
AutoCAD Release 1.0 was launched.
1982
A company called P-CAD released a CAD program called CADplan. Later the product was purchased by CalComp and renamed CADVANCE.
1983
Unigraphics II introduced to market
AutoCAD Release 1.1 was launched.
AutoCAD Release 1.2 was launched.
AutoCAD Release 1.4 was launched.
1984
AutoCAD Release 2 was launched.
1985
CATIA Version 2 is announced with fully integrated drafting, solid and robotics functions.
CATIA becomes the aeronautical applications leader.
AutoCAD Release 2.1 was launched.
1985
Diehl Graphsoft, Inc. is founded and the first version of MiniCAD is shipped in the same year. MiniCAD will become the best selling CAD program on the Macintosh.
1986
Dassault acquires CADAM
AutoCAD Release 2.5 was launched.
1987
General Motors selects Unigraphics company as a Strategic Partner
Pro/ENGINEER 1 - 1987 (Autofact 1987 premier)
AutoCAD Release 13 was launched.
AutoCAD Release 2.6 was launched.
1988
CATIA Version 3 is announced with AEC functionality. CATIA is ported to IBM's UNIX-based RISC System/6000 workstations. CATIA becomes the automotive applications leader
1988
Surfware Inc., ships the first version of SurfCAM, a CAD/CAM program.
AutoCAD Release 10 was launched.
1989
Parametric Technology ships the first version of Pro/ENGINEER.
1990
McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) chooses Unigraphics as the corporate standard for mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE
AutoCAD Release 11 was launched.
1991
GE Aircraft Engine and GE Power Generation select Unigraphics as their CAD/CAM system
Pro/ENGINEER 8.0 - 1991
1992
CADAM was purchased from IBM and the next year CATIA CADAM V4 was published
Pro/ENGINEER 9.0 - 1992
AutoCAD Release 12 was launched.
1993
Pro/ENGINEER 10.0 - 1993
Pro/ENGINEER 11.0 - 1993
Pro/ENGINEER 12.0 - 1993
1994
Pro/ENGINEER 13.0 - 1994
Pro/ENGINEER 14.0 - 1994
AutoCAD Release 13 was launched.
1995
Dassault Systems ships ProCADAM, a shorter version of CATIA for use on NT systems.
Pro/ENGINEER 15.0 - 1995
Unigraphics on Microsoft Windows NT debuted
First Autodesk Web site www.autodesk.com
CADKEY version 7 was launched.
1996
Solid Edge version 3 from Intergraph hits the market at the price of around USD 6000.
EDS Unigraphics version 11 with 4 new CAM modules.
In August Autodesk ships Mechanical Desktop version 1.1
Camand version 11, a CAM product from SDRC.
Corel Visual CADD version 2 (a 2D program) and CorelCAD ( a 3D version) from Corel.
Pro/E version 17 with a new module which allows files to be exported into VRML file format for display on the Internet.
Pro/ENGINEER 16.0 - 1996
In 1996, it was ported from one to four Unix operating systems, including IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Microsystems SunOS, and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX.
1997
AutoCAD Release 14 was launched.
TurboCAD Professional version 4 from IMSI.
VGX technology from SDRC provides intuitive interaction for the design and modification of parametric feature - based solids. It will be used first in I-DEAS Master Series 5.
Pro/ENGINEER 17.0 - 1997
Pro/ENGINEER 18.0 - 1997
First version of IDEAS Artisan Series from SDRC, fully compatible with Master Series, priced at ~ USD 5,000.
1998
An entirely rewritten version of CATIA, CATIA V5 was released,
First version of IronCAD for VDS market.
Solid Edge version 3 from Intergraph with more than 150 new features.
TurboCAD Professional version 5 from IMSI.
Pro/ENGINEER 19.0 - 1998
Pro/ENGINEER 20.0 - 1998
1998, V5 was released, which was an entirely rewritten version of CATIA, with support for UNIX, Windows NT and Windows XP since 2001
1999
Unigraphics Solutions signs five-year, $43 million contract with Boeing for CAD/CAM Software
In June Pro/E 2000i was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER 2000i - 1999
Unigraphics Solutions Acquires German high-tech Company, dCADE.
March - Dassault Systems introduces CATIA Version 5.
AutoCAD 2000 was released.
2000
SDRC, a global supplier of e-business collaboration solutions for the product lifecycle, announced on March I-DEAS 8, a major software release to enable e-design automation.
Dassault Systemes and announced the readiness of CATIA Solutions Version 5 Release 3(b) (V5R3) for Microsoft Windows 2000 operating platform.
PTC announced two major updates to its PTC i-Series of flexible engineering solutions: Pro/MECHANICA 2000i² and Pro/DESKTOP 2000i².
Dassault Systemes announced that it plans to integrate Microsoft's Visual BASIC for Applications into its products, including SolidWorks, CATIA, SmarTeam, ENOVIA, and DELMIA..
IBM and Dassault Systemes launched Version 5 Release 5 of CATIA, to be available for Windows and UNIX.
Delcam has been the world's leading specialist supplier of NC machining software and services during 2000.
Second position is Hitachi Zosen followed by Cimatron.
SolidWorks 2001
Unigraphics Version 17 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER 2000i2 - 2000
AutoCAD 2000i was released.
2001
SolidWorks 2001 Plus launched
SDRC I-DEAS was bought by its competitor, Electronic Data Systems
Unigraphics Version 18 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER 2001–2001
AutoCAD 2002 was released.
2002
SolidWorks 2003 was released.
Unigraphics NX was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 1.0 - 2002
AutoCAD 2003 was released.
2003
SolidWorks 2004
UG NX 2 was launched
AutoCAD 2004 was released.
2004
SolidWorks 2005
EDS sold off its EDS PLM Solutions business to the private equity group of Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners, and Warburg Pincus in 2004. The company resumed operating under the UGS name following the private equity sale.
UG NX 3 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 - 2004
AutoCAD 2005 was released.
2005
SolidWorks 2006 (Native Windows x86-64 version was released from SP4.0 onwards)
UGS purchased Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd.
AutoCAD 2006 was released.
2006
SolidWorks 2007 (A Beta version for Vista exists with limited support.)
UG NX 4 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 - 2006
AutoCAD 2007 was released.
2007
SolidWorks 2008: Includes full support for Vista x86. Out in October, 2007. SP3.1 includes native Vista x64 support
UGS was purchased by Siemens AG in May 2007, and was renamed Siemens PLM Software.
UG NX 5 was launched.
AutoCAD 2008 was released.
2008
SolidWorks 2009: Released September, 2008. Includes native Vista x86 and x64 support. Final update is SP5.1
Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology was launched.
Dassault announced and released CATIA V6.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 - 2008
AutoCAD 2009 was released.
2008, Dassault announced and released CATIA V6.While the server can run on Microsoft Windows, Linux or AIX, client support for any operating system other than Microsoft Windows is dropped
2009
NX 6 was launched by SIEMENS PLM Softwares.
SolidWorks 2010: SP0.0 Released October, 2009.
Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 - 2009
AutoCAD 2010 was released on 24 March 2009.
NX 7 was launched by SIEMENS PLM Softwares.
2010
AutoCAD 2011 is launched on 25th March 2010.
NX 7.5—launched in mid 2010. NX 7.5 to include more industrial design enhancements to make styling easier.
Creo element pro R 5.0 launched in2010.(Pro/Engineer)
SolidWorks 2011: Launched in jun 2010.
November 2010, Dassault launched Catia V6R2011x, the latest release of its PLM2.0 platform while still continuing to support and improve its Catia V5 software
2011
AutoCAD 2012 is launched on 22 march 2011.
NX 8 is launched on 17th october 2011.
SolidWorks 2012 is released on 10 october 2011.
Creo 1.0 launched in 2011.(Pro/Engineer)
June 2011, Dassault launched V6 R2012.
2012
AutoCAD 2013 is launched on 27 March 2012.
SolidWorks 2013 released in September, 2012.
Creo 2.0 launched in 2012.(Pro/Engineer)
2013
AutoCAD 2014 V-19.1, is launched on 26 March 2013.
SolidWorks 2014 released in october, 2013.
2014
AutoCAD 2015 V-20.0, is launched on 27 March 2014. (29th Release)
Creo 3.0 launched in 2013.(Pro/Engineer)
SolidWorks 2015 releasing in october, 2014
The first graphic system was developed by US Air Force's SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) air defense system. The system was developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.
1957
Dr. Patrick J. Hanratty known as "the Father of CADD/CAM" for his pioneering contributions to the field of computer-aided design and manufacturing, developed PRONTO, the first commercial numerical-control programming system.
1960
McDonnell Douglas Automation Company (McAuto) was founded. It played a major role on CAD developments with the introduction of CADD program.
1962
SLS Environectics in Chicago began development of the Man-Mac machine, intended to draft plans for interior office space.
1965
Donald Welbourn heard a lecture to the Engineering Society by Strachey of the Mathematical Laboratory (now the Department of Computer Science) on the early work at MIT on Computer Aided Design (CAD).
1967
Dr. Jason R Lemon founds SDRC in Cincinnati.
1972
The MCS company's first product, ADAM (Automated Drafting and Machining), was released in 1972, ran on 16-bit computers, and was one of the first commercially available mechanical design packages.
1975
Electronic Data System Corporation (EDS) is founded.
1975
Avions Marcel Dassault (AMD) purchased CADAM (Computer-Augmented Drafting and Manufacturing) software equipment licenses from Lockheed thus becoming one of the very first CADAM customers.
1976
United Computing, developer of the Unigraphics CAD/CAM/CAE system, acquired by Mc Donnell Douglas Company.
1977
Avions Marcel Dassault assigned its engineering team the goal of creating a three-dimensional, interactive program, the forerunner of CATIA (Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application).
1979
Boeing, General Electric and NIST develops a neutral file format as a contract from Air Space called IGES (Initial Graphic Exchange Standard).
1981
Unigraphics introduced the first solid modeling system, UniSolid. It was based on PADL-2, and was sold as a stand-alone product to Unigraphics.
1982
CATIA Version 1 is announced as an add-on product for 3D design, surface modeling and NC programming.
AutoCAD Release 1.0 was launched.
1982
A company called P-CAD released a CAD program called CADplan. Later the product was purchased by CalComp and renamed CADVANCE.
1983
Unigraphics II introduced to market
AutoCAD Release 1.1 was launched.
AutoCAD Release 1.2 was launched.
AutoCAD Release 1.4 was launched.
1984
AutoCAD Release 2 was launched.
1985
CATIA Version 2 is announced with fully integrated drafting, solid and robotics functions.
CATIA becomes the aeronautical applications leader.
AutoCAD Release 2.1 was launched.
1985
Diehl Graphsoft, Inc. is founded and the first version of MiniCAD is shipped in the same year. MiniCAD will become the best selling CAD program on the Macintosh.
1986
Dassault acquires CADAM
AutoCAD Release 2.5 was launched.
1987
General Motors selects Unigraphics company as a Strategic Partner
Pro/ENGINEER 1 - 1987 (Autofact 1987 premier)
AutoCAD Release 13 was launched.
AutoCAD Release 2.6 was launched.
1988
CATIA Version 3 is announced with AEC functionality. CATIA is ported to IBM's UNIX-based RISC System/6000 workstations. CATIA becomes the automotive applications leader
1988
Surfware Inc., ships the first version of SurfCAM, a CAD/CAM program.
AutoCAD Release 10 was launched.
1989
Parametric Technology ships the first version of Pro/ENGINEER.
1990
McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) chooses Unigraphics as the corporate standard for mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE
AutoCAD Release 11 was launched.
1991
GE Aircraft Engine and GE Power Generation select Unigraphics as their CAD/CAM system
Pro/ENGINEER 8.0 - 1991
1992
CADAM was purchased from IBM and the next year CATIA CADAM V4 was published
Pro/ENGINEER 9.0 - 1992
AutoCAD Release 12 was launched.
1993
Pro/ENGINEER 10.0 - 1993
Pro/ENGINEER 11.0 - 1993
Pro/ENGINEER 12.0 - 1993
1994
Pro/ENGINEER 13.0 - 1994
Pro/ENGINEER 14.0 - 1994
AutoCAD Release 13 was launched.
1995
Dassault Systems ships ProCADAM, a shorter version of CATIA for use on NT systems.
Pro/ENGINEER 15.0 - 1995
Unigraphics on Microsoft Windows NT debuted
First Autodesk Web site www.autodesk.com
CADKEY version 7 was launched.
1996
Solid Edge version 3 from Intergraph hits the market at the price of around USD 6000.
EDS Unigraphics version 11 with 4 new CAM modules.
In August Autodesk ships Mechanical Desktop version 1.1
Camand version 11, a CAM product from SDRC.
Corel Visual CADD version 2 (a 2D program) and CorelCAD ( a 3D version) from Corel.
Pro/E version 17 with a new module which allows files to be exported into VRML file format for display on the Internet.
Pro/ENGINEER 16.0 - 1996
In 1996, it was ported from one to four Unix operating systems, including IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Microsystems SunOS, and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX.
1997
AutoCAD Release 14 was launched.
TurboCAD Professional version 4 from IMSI.
VGX technology from SDRC provides intuitive interaction for the design and modification of parametric feature - based solids. It will be used first in I-DEAS Master Series 5.
Pro/ENGINEER 17.0 - 1997
Pro/ENGINEER 18.0 - 1997
First version of IDEAS Artisan Series from SDRC, fully compatible with Master Series, priced at ~ USD 5,000.
1998
An entirely rewritten version of CATIA, CATIA V5 was released,
First version of IronCAD for VDS market.
Solid Edge version 3 from Intergraph with more than 150 new features.
TurboCAD Professional version 5 from IMSI.
Pro/ENGINEER 19.0 - 1998
Pro/ENGINEER 20.0 - 1998
1998, V5 was released, which was an entirely rewritten version of CATIA, with support for UNIX, Windows NT and Windows XP since 2001
1999
Unigraphics Solutions signs five-year, $43 million contract with Boeing for CAD/CAM Software
In June Pro/E 2000i was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER 2000i - 1999
Unigraphics Solutions Acquires German high-tech Company, dCADE.
March - Dassault Systems introduces CATIA Version 5.
AutoCAD 2000 was released.
2000
SDRC, a global supplier of e-business collaboration solutions for the product lifecycle, announced on March I-DEAS 8, a major software release to enable e-design automation.
Dassault Systemes and announced the readiness of CATIA Solutions Version 5 Release 3(b) (V5R3) for Microsoft Windows 2000 operating platform.
PTC announced two major updates to its PTC i-Series of flexible engineering solutions: Pro/MECHANICA 2000i² and Pro/DESKTOP 2000i².
Dassault Systemes announced that it plans to integrate Microsoft's Visual BASIC for Applications into its products, including SolidWorks, CATIA, SmarTeam, ENOVIA, and DELMIA..
IBM and Dassault Systemes launched Version 5 Release 5 of CATIA, to be available for Windows and UNIX.
Delcam has been the world's leading specialist supplier of NC machining software and services during 2000.
Second position is Hitachi Zosen followed by Cimatron.
SolidWorks 2001
Unigraphics Version 17 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER 2000i2 - 2000
AutoCAD 2000i was released.
2001
SolidWorks 2001 Plus launched
SDRC I-DEAS was bought by its competitor, Electronic Data Systems
Unigraphics Version 18 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER 2001–2001
AutoCAD 2002 was released.
2002
SolidWorks 2003 was released.
Unigraphics NX was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 1.0 - 2002
AutoCAD 2003 was released.
2003
SolidWorks 2004
UG NX 2 was launched
AutoCAD 2004 was released.
2004
SolidWorks 2005
EDS sold off its EDS PLM Solutions business to the private equity group of Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners, and Warburg Pincus in 2004. The company resumed operating under the UGS name following the private equity sale.
UG NX 3 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 - 2004
AutoCAD 2005 was released.
2005
SolidWorks 2006 (Native Windows x86-64 version was released from SP4.0 onwards)
UGS purchased Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd.
AutoCAD 2006 was released.
2006
SolidWorks 2007 (A Beta version for Vista exists with limited support.)
UG NX 4 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 - 2006
AutoCAD 2007 was released.
2007
SolidWorks 2008: Includes full support for Vista x86. Out in October, 2007. SP3.1 includes native Vista x64 support
UGS was purchased by Siemens AG in May 2007, and was renamed Siemens PLM Software.
UG NX 5 was launched.
AutoCAD 2008 was released.
2008
SolidWorks 2009: Released September, 2008. Includes native Vista x86 and x64 support. Final update is SP5.1
Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology was launched.
Dassault announced and released CATIA V6.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 - 2008
AutoCAD 2009 was released.
2008, Dassault announced and released CATIA V6.While the server can run on Microsoft Windows, Linux or AIX, client support for any operating system other than Microsoft Windows is dropped
2009
NX 6 was launched by SIEMENS PLM Softwares.
SolidWorks 2010: SP0.0 Released October, 2009.
Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 was launched.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 - 2009
AutoCAD 2010 was released on 24 March 2009.
NX 7 was launched by SIEMENS PLM Softwares.
2010
AutoCAD 2011 is launched on 25th March 2010.
NX 7.5—launched in mid 2010. NX 7.5 to include more industrial design enhancements to make styling easier.
Creo element pro R 5.0 launched in2010.(Pro/Engineer)
SolidWorks 2011: Launched in jun 2010.
November 2010, Dassault launched Catia V6R2011x, the latest release of its PLM2.0 platform while still continuing to support and improve its Catia V5 software
2011
AutoCAD 2012 is launched on 22 march 2011.
NX 8 is launched on 17th october 2011.
SolidWorks 2012 is released on 10 october 2011.
Creo 1.0 launched in 2011.(Pro/Engineer)
June 2011, Dassault launched V6 R2012.
2012
AutoCAD 2013 is launched on 27 March 2012.
SolidWorks 2013 released in September, 2012.
Creo 2.0 launched in 2012.(Pro/Engineer)
2013
AutoCAD 2014 V-19.1, is launched on 26 March 2013.
SolidWorks 2014 released in october, 2013.
2014
AutoCAD 2015 V-20.0, is launched on 27 March 2014. (29th Release)
Creo 3.0 launched in 2013.(Pro/Engineer)
SolidWorks 2015 releasing in october, 2014