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  2. AutoCAD - Wikipedia

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    AutoCAD is a 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) ... The primary file format for 2D and 3D drawing files created with AutoCAD is .dwg.

  3. History of CAD software - Wikipedia

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    Between the mid-1940s and 1950s, various developments were made in computer software.Some of these developments include servo-motors controlled by generated pulse (1949), a digital computer with built-in operations to automatically coordinate transforms to compute radar related vectors (1951), and the graphic mathematical process of forming a shape with a digital machine tool (1952).

  4. AutoCAD version history - Wikipedia

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    AutoCAD is a commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application by Autodesk. The first release of the software started with version 1.0 in December 1982. [ 1 ] The software has been continuously updated since its initial release.

  5. Computer-aided design - Wikipedia

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    Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. [ 1 ] : 3 This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing.

  6. Autodesk - Wikipedia

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    AutoCAD is the company's flagship computer ... which was created in November 2010 to generate interest in 3-D design and “foster a new wave of designers who ...

  7. John Walker (programmer) - Wikipedia

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    The first completed was AutoCAD, [7] a software application for computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting. [8] AutoCAD had begun life as Interact, [9] [10] a CAD program, written by programmer Michael Riddle [11] in a proprietary language. Walker and Riddle rewrote the program, and established a profit-sharing agreement for any product derived ...

  8. Sketchpad - Wikipedia

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    Sketchpad ran on the MIT Lincoln Laboratory TX-2 (1958) computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which had 64k of 36-bit words.The user drew on the computer monitor screen with the recently invented light pen, which relayed information on its position by computing at what time the light from the scanning cathode-ray tube screen is detected.

  9. .dwg - Wikipedia

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    DWG is merely descriptive of applicant's goods under Section 2(e)(1) of the Trademark Act for two reasons: (1) DWG is a recognized abbreviation for "drawing," and (2) .dwg is a file format used for computer-aided design (CAD) drawings made both with applicant's CAD software and others' CAD software.