Category Autodesk History

Throwback Thursday AutoCAD 2.18 Commands

It's Thursday (Throwback Thursday), the day after hump day when you show photos or info from history and the wayback machine. Today I proudly present you a screen capture I took from AutoCAD 2.18 circa 1985 showing all commands it…

Throwback Thursday Autodesk 3D Studio R1 Circa 1990

On this Throwback Thursday I give you Autodesk’s 3D Studio R1 for DOS from 1990. 3D Studio was the predecessor to the very popular Autodesk 3ds Max. This is from back when when 3D was for more difficult and primitive…

Engineers Guide to Drinks Lives On and Will Move to 3D

The Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing or Infographic as it is now called in reality was really just a test drawing was originally created by someone that was very creative or very bored in order to test pen plotters back…

Throwback Thursday – Autodesk Puck

Been traveling 2 weeks and need to catch up so stay tuned, but first this gem given to meat last weeks Autodesk University 2014 by Kean Walmsey of Autodesk. Feast your eyes on this pristine heavy gem of hardware. What…

Autodesk Flashback – AUTODESK the Software

Back in the early 1980's when Autodesk was being founded there was indeed a product named AUTODESK. Trivia for bonus points: What exactly did it do?

Happy 32nd Birthday Autodesk

On this day January 30th, 1982, 32 years ago a small group of people held an initial meeting in Marin County California to organize what became Autodesk. They risked it all including all the money they could scrape together and…

Keep Calm and…

One of the finest features to ever be added to software including AutoCAD back in the mid 1980’s in AutoCAD Release 2.5 because apparently users prior to that never ever made a mistake.

Funny history tidbit: Before the UNDO command was added into AutoCAD you had to close the drawing without saving to be able to undo what you last did.

The Very First AutoCAD Logo from 1982

I have one of the first AutoCAD manuals with this old logo and showed it at my keynote on the topic of Autodesk and Innovation #AutodeskInnovation at the ProSoft Powerlaunch event Thursday.