It is useful to remember the past, when the present hovers over us. Rednova has a listing of headlines, some of which may come as a suprise to us.
These sorts of things were "normal" ten years ago??
1995
* 60% of manufacturing companies have CAD.
* Computervision launches Pelorus - a new CAD/CAM architecture based on Windows.
* Jupiter, a joint project involving Microsoft and Intergraph, will make CAD translators a thing of the past.
* Free Pentium-based PCs are offered by Matra Datavision with its Prelude design software on NT.
* OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) Design & Modelling promises engineering development using incompatible CAD systems.
* STEP translators "still don't work", or at best are of variable quality. Even fonts on drawings are an area of "potential disaster."
* VR [virtual reality] is paraded at the CIM ' 9 5 Show, with Eureka magazine and Silicon Graphics bringing together Superscape, Division, ISS1 Twentyman, Autologic and Matra.
1996
* Solidworks claims it's taking on PTC in solid modelling, with similar functionality as the giant but at a fraction of the price -- and all on NT.
* Autodesk announces .DWF format for secure design sharing over the Internet.
1997
* PTC acquires 25-year-old Computervision, and launches Windchill.
* EDS Unigraphics buys Intergraph's MCAD and CAM businesses, including Solid Edge.
* Dassault buys SolidWorks and Deneb.
* SDRC buys Control Data's share of Metaphase.
* Microsoft Windows DNA for Manufacturing is launched to bring plants into the business network.
* The Internet-enabled manufacturing demo is staged by Digital, Intergraph, Microsoft, SAP and Siemens in Birmingham - covering CAD, production and supply chain management and shopfloor systems.
* Sun says Java will provide a common API for linking applications like MRP, CAD and CNC.
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