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History of AutoCAD
On December 14, 1982, the first release of AutoCAD was made public at the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers (AIME) conference in Anaheim, California. AutoCAD's development began in 1978 as part of the company's effort to design and sell digital drafting systems. It initially consisted of a drawing engine running on an IBM S/360 mainframe computer. With the release of AutoCAD, all of Autodesk's previous products, such as Drape, Location, and DrawIt, were incorporated into a new product named "AutoCAD."
From the beginning, AutoCAD was intended to run on a desktop computer. The first desktop version of AutoCAD included a drawing window and palettes. The palettes allowed for the customization of various features of the program.
Back in 1979, Autodesk envisioned a simpler form of CAD called "point and click." The concept was to make a CAD program that consisted of a simple drawing window and the ability to click on a box or a curve and drag to an exact location. The idea was scrapped in 1983 because the mouse was not yet popular enough to become a mainstream CAD tool.
AutoCAD's first release, in 1982, supported the IBM S/360 machine (left) and the first Apple Macintosh (right).
Autodesk
Autodesk Inc. is a global software design and software product development company with revenues in excess of $1.0 billion. It was incorporated in March 1983 and is based in San Rafael, California. The company's products include Autodesk 3D Studio and SketchBook Pro 3D. Autodesk products are used for product design and computer-aided engineering (CAE).
Autodesk was founded in 1982 by Scott Eaton and Joel Lipman, who originally worked as account executives for a graphic arts company that produced preprinted forms. The company changed its name from Dialog Inc. to Autodesk in 1986.
In October 2014, Autodesk was acquired by German computer software and services company, SAP AG.
Launched in 1986, Autodesk Design Review was the first web-based collaborative design tool.
AutoCAD
AutoCAD is an international standard for computer-aided design (CAD). It is a cross-platform, 2D vector graphics program for the visualization, creation, and editing of 2D geometry. AutoC
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Characteristics
 A vector drawing system with many tools.
 Autodesk is dedicated to building a CAD software that is accessible to people in a variety of professions and geographic locations. For this purpose, Autodesk products are very simple to learn and use. Additionally, the interface is designed for speed and accuracy.
 Autodesk products are regularly updated to improve usability and quality, and the software is able to import and export most other vector- and raster-based file formats.
History
Autodesk was founded in 1982 as a spin-off of the Architecture Machine Shop of The University of California, San Francisco, CA, by John Walker and David Thomas, based on work begun by David Engel. Walker and Engel had been working together on architectural software, and Thomas had developed CAD software at the University of Cambridge. Engel left Autodesk in 1982 and went on to start Maia Systems, a competing software company.
In 1985 Autodesk received a US patent for CAD. In 1987, Autodesk hired Peter B. Wimer as its first employee. Wimer had worked at the MIT CAD lab as a graduate student and had collaborated with David Engel. The company's first product was the AutoCAD 2022 Crack software, which was released in 1987 and was the first CAD program to be released for MS-DOS.
In 1994, Autodesk acquired the Embedded Systems group of the Ford Motor Company, which was an outsourcing group for embedded software. The new company called Autodesk Embedded Systems (AES) was later spun off into a separate Autodesk company.
In 1994, the company released the A-station product, the first fully automated CNC workstation.
In 1995, Autodesk acquired Ansys Inc., a company that developed finite element analysis software. In 1996, Autodesk purchased three leading CAD software companies, MSC Software, The Learning Company and Tsaiware.
In 1997, Autodesk bought CADCAM manufacturer PTC. Autodesk acquired Map-IT, a supplier of transportation data.
In 1998, Autodesk acquired UGS and Vertex-PV, two companies in the United States.
In 1999, Autodesk bought the Magnetics division of Oak Industries Inc. (Oak was acquired by Dyson International).
In 2000, Autodesk acquired Hisey Corporation, a leading software company focused on desktop CAD, and developed by Allan Hisey in 1982.
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