"On Thursday, Nov. 15, AutoCAD -- and the company that created it -- celebrate their 25th anniversary. In that quarter-century, much has changed in the CAD world. The industry has become more diversified and competitive, yet the same things that made computer-aided design commercially popular 25 years ago remain just as true today."
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This is really interesting because all the big points of innovation don't seem to have changed through 25 years. I guess it's odd because my generation has grown up with computers but 25 years really isn't that long a time. It's crazy to think of a world devoid of CAD..
I really like the point they made at the end where they said that auto CAD is really nothing more than a pencil. I think that one downfall of all types of computers in design is that things can come out looking the same. Auto CAD is really nice because as the y said in the article it does allow a few people to be as productive as a whole lot of people. CAD does it all and does it all with ease.
Happy Birthday to you.....I agree with the above statement about the comment how CAD is nothing more than a pencil. A rather large pencil with hidden compartments and all kinds of 007 things, but at its heart, a pencil nevertheless. It’s rather endearing and sad at the same time for CAD is this lovely easy tool sent by the gods, where the only problems you have are your own fault.
yay autocad!
i think that this program is one of the things i most proud to be learning at school. it is something really will help me in the future and has considerably made the lives of architects engineers and designers easier. i agree with all of things posted... especially aclapps heartfelt message in regards to common mistakes... beautifully eloquent.
Wow 4,000 for a software. Pricey I must say. I do not really know the full capabilities of this software yet but i seems very useful and time efficient. This company has come a long way, 25 years, and must have made fortune and have millions of patents.
25 years is a long time for a computer program. 25 years ago, most people have never used a computer, and today they still make the most popular drafting program. I really like CAD now that I know how to use the basic functions. The structure of it is very precise, and very fast if you know what you want to draft.
it is interesting to consider the changes that have been made in the 25 years and think of the changes that will come in the next 25. will it be much more different?
This just shows how revolutionary autocad was and continues to be. It's one of the programs (although it isnt really recognized as such) that helped to expand the pc market. I also like that they point out that its still just a tool. Other programs like to do things for you, autocad does things but more so you have to tell it to. This tends to be a hidden blessing because computers occasionally do things wrong.
its funny to think that I gave up on this program when i first looked at it in high school. i'm glad i took a second chance with it.
it's really unfortunate that there's no open source version available, but 25 years of people hard at work making the software better leaves a pretty big shadow for other programs to hide in.
Let us celebrate 25yrs of innovation and the ability to communicate highly complicated mechanical elements via a virtual program. Hats off to those programmers who have helped these engineers find a medium in which they can create, design and construct their ideas so that we, the rest of the world, can function in this highly mechanised and "high-tech" environment we are living in. oh yeah . . . and thank you for providing us theatre-folk with a program that makes what we do analogous to, "cutting butter with a chainsaw."
and now with Inventor 11 and '08 at our disposal we will be cutting our butter with a nuclear missile.
I have to agree with the last part of this article. This is a tool, it does not do the designing for you. You still have to have a vision and some concept of how to execute that vision. I know that my generation keeps saying that it's so crazy people used to hand draft everything and how would we survive now without CAD, but I am one of those people who is behind technology wise. I am just very much ingraned in the practice of hand drafting everything. My mom hand drafted our remodel for our house and that got me into it. There is just no way with the current technology that I would be able to start out on a computer and develope my idea there. Technology does not give me that freedom to let my ideas flow. Somehow holding an actual pencil just transforms into a direct extension of my imagination.
Wow, I guess I never realized how long it had actually been around. It's funny for me to think that a little of two decades ago, if you were lucky, you were doing any sort of CAD on a computer that took up a good portion of a small room, seeing as the Lincolns mentioned were pretty revolutionary for their time. Its good to see them kinda mention all the places it's used and to hear other people's views on in, besides just the old CEO of AutoDesk.
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