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25 year retrospective part 2 CAD/CAM/CAE: our anniversary celebration continues with highlights of computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering from issues past.
* March 1982 Solid modeling, considered a toy by some users of computer-aided design software but an industry panacea by others, has proliferated to CAD systems from 17 vendors, including Computervision (used to create this model), as well as IBM, Prime, Control Data, and Applicon.
* November 1982 Modeling systems of the day are able to work with planes, cylinders, cones, spheres, and tori, but have difficulty creating objects with interior holes or more than four edges. Support for free-form surfaces, such as blends between edges, is also limited and considered a CAD feature of the future.
* December 1983 The Romulus solid geometric modeler, developed ...