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In the mid 1990s, its VISI-CAD and VISI-CAM products were the first to use the PC implementation of the Parasolid kernel. The company was incorporated in 1997 under the name Deepcredit Limited, and then renamed as VI Group Plc in 1998 prior to its listing on the London Stock Market. [1] In October 2007, the company was renamed to Vero Software. [2]
After its founding, between 2000 and 2022, Hexagon completed more than 170 acquisitions, [9] and it is the parent company of Leica Geosystems [10] and Infor EAM, among other subsidiaries. [6] With around 24,000 employees, Hexagon's revenue in 2023 was US$5.5 billion, while assets were $18.1 billion.
Hexagon is a subdivision-type 3D modeler owned by Daz 3D. It was originally developed and published by Eovia [ 3 ] and was acquired shortly before the release of version 2.0 by Daz 3D in 2006. The software drew heavily on Eovia's other modeler, Amapi (it shared the same developers), though it omitted the NURBs and precision measuring tools.
September 1994 - PDA Engineering [10] December 1998 - Knowledge Revolution May 1999 - MSC Software acquired MARC Analysis Research Corporation to add software that tests complex designs and materials. [11] June 1999 - Universal Analytics Incorporation (UAI) [12] November 1999 - Computerized Structural Analysis Research Corporation (CSAR) [12]
The port of Linux for Hexagon runs under a hypervisor layer ("Hexagon Virtual Machine" [25]) and was merged with the 3.2 release of the kernel. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The original hypervisor is closed-source, and in April 2013 a minimal open-source hypervisor implementation for QDSP6 V2 and V3, the "Hexagon MiniVM" was released by Qualcomm under a BSD ...
Visi On was the first piece of software with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the IBM PC platform. [1] It was also one of the first GUIs available on any personal computer. Visi On was never popular, as it had steep minimum system requirements for its day, but it was influential in the development of later GUIs like Microsoft Windows .
Microsoft Visio (/ ˈ v ɪ z. i. oʊ /, VIZ-ee-oh), formerly Microsoft Office Visio, is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft 365 Business. The product was first introduced in 1992 by former American software company Visio Corporation, and its latest version is Visio 2021.
Visi On was the first GUI for the IBM PC. Bill Gates came to see Visi On at a trade show, and this seems to be what inspired him to create a windowed GUI for Microsoft. VisiCorp was larger than Microsoft at the time, and the two companies entered negotiations to merge, but could not agree on who would sit on the board of directors.