Category Autodesk History

What is Your Favorite AutoCAD Sample Drawing

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…

An Epic Piece of Autodesk History –The Nozzle

An amazing surprise as I walked into the office this morning, Kevin Schneider presented me with the historical original nozzle used in many sample files and demos of AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor over the past 34 years. AutoCAD 2.6 included…

Throwback Thursday – The Coveted Mug

About 25 years ago I was a mechanical designer, Autodesk customer, and a contributing member of the Autodesk Beta Programs. I received free products occasionally like tee-shirts, and other items as rewards for bug reporting and feedback, but one gift…

Throwback Thursday – The Roaring Twenties of Computing

This is the 35th year of Autodesk and AutoCAD, and in the past year I have exchanged emails with the founder of Autodesk, John Walker. I asked John about the beginnings of Autodesk and also asked about what he sees…

Throwback Thursday – AutoCAD 35 Years

Autodesk and AutoCAD was created 35 years ago this year. There are many celebrations looking back over the years, and also looking forward to the future. Autodesk was founded by John Walker, so I emailed with John on his perspective…

35年AutoCAD庆祝活动

于7月3号成功登顶7546米的慕士塔格峰(新疆),带着一面"I Love AutoCAD“的35周年纪念旗子。 Hill是一名AutoCAD的资深老用户,他在90年代初就开始学习使用AutoCAD,从2.x版开始! 这也不是Hill第一次带着AutoCAD的旗子出去登山。位于四川省的半脊峰顶上(5430米)也曾飘扬过“Keep Calm & Love AutoCAD”的旗子。半脊峰上露了半张脸的就是Hill。 登上7546米是个不俗的成绩,35周年的AutoCAD更是不凡!

35 Years of AutoCAD Celebration Goes Way Up

An AutoCAD Team member, Hill Fang has summited with his 35 years of AutoCAD flag. Hill Fang summited Muztagh-Ata, 7,546m / 24,757ft, on July 3rd,2017 with an “I Love AutoCAD” 35 Year anniversary flag. Hill started using AutoCAD back in…

Throwback Thursday – Autodesk Mugs

Back in the day Autodesk used to be fond of giving coffee mugs to people. I will never remember my first coffee mug as an Autodesk customer and beta tester in 1995. It was a black shiny mug with the…

32nd Release of AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2018 was just released, but did you know it was the 32nd release of AutoCAD and that its beta codename was Omega? I maintain a list of all of these and a few more at: http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/autocad-release-history.html  AutoCAD Release History…

Photos from Yesterdays 35th Birthday of Autodesk

Yesterday Autodesk celebrated its 35th birthday and employees, partners, and customers joined in to mark the occasion. From Portland, San Francisco, Manchester, Boston, Toronto, Moscow, Neuchâtel, and many other locations and remote offices there were employees in old Autodesk memorabilia…