After I was given the original nozzle that was in one of the first sample drawings of AutoCAD from 1984 (An Epic Piece of Autodesk History –The Nozzle), there were many discussions on old sample files. It’s Throwback Thursday, so in the spirit of that what is you favorite AutoCAD sample file or ones that bring the most memories for you. I spend my current job mostly looking forward in to the future of design and technology, but it is also so much fun to look back on where we have been especially since I was a customer using AutoCAD 20 years ago and have many memories. Looking back over the past 36 years of Autodesk and seeing how much things have changed gets me excited about the possibilities where we will all be in the next 36 years.
Here are some of the sample files from AutoCAD 1.x to today covering 36 years of AutoCAD history.
Azimuth
Butterfly House
Campus
Chair
Chevy
Color Wheels (old and new true color)
Digitizer Tablet Overlay
Hummer
Linkrods
Nozzle
Robot
Sextant
Shuttle
Shuttle Columbia
Solar System in 1:1 scale (and all planets and lunar lander with plaque)
SPCA Plan
Stadium
Sydney Opera House
Welding Fixture
Willhome
So let me know in the comments what your favorite AutoCAD official sample drawing or one with the most memories for you and the release it was from. I plan to post many of these drawings files along with any known history.
Cheers,
Shaan
I think I’ve got to pick the Columbia shuttle, though I always really liked the nozzle drawing too. It’s pretty cool that you have the original and that it was still around!
I like(d) the Nozzle and the Columbia too, but some years ago I used the Color Wheel very often to print and to understand a bunch of confusing, messed up CTBs.
No wrong choice there. Thank you.
Thank you for the Color Wheel vote!
I remember how cool it was to zoom around in the Solar System drawing back in AutoCAD Version 2.6.
I’ll have to go with the Butterfly House, only because I’ve actually been in the finished product. But the COLORWH.DWG was cool to print out, way back when color plotters were a thing.
I completely agree. I would pick solar system as well. It was the first time I realized what “double-precision, floating point math” meant!