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#HISTORY OF SOLID EDGE CAD SOFTWARE#
OLE had already taken the software industry by storm with its Copy-Paste or Drag and Drop facilities that allowed features like, say a graph created in Excel, to be inserted into Word or PowerPoint and vice versa. Applications based on the Jupiter technology were software components that seamlessly worked with each other and were compliant with Microsoft’s OLE, short for Object Linking and Embedding. This changed on May 9th, 1995 when Intergraph released its path-breaking technology code-named Jupiter which was a Windows-based, object-oriented software development framework. Not only were they accessible only to a select few engineers, various components of the CAD systems were not designed and hence not capable of exchanging data with each other without the involvement of a third party neutral format like IGES, STEP or DXF. This is perhaps also the reason why Solid Edge’s global headquarters today continues to be in Huntsville, AL the home of Intergraph even after being acquired by Siemens AG in 2007.īefore Solid Edge arrived on the scene, Unix was the dominant operating system for CAD with dedicated workstations built around them bundled together as what was then called Turnkey Graphics Systems. It was only in 1980 that the name was changed to Intergraph, short for Interactive graphics. The group consisted of Jim Meadlock and Terry Schansman who are the M and the S in the company name besides others. Solid Edge was first released by Intergraph which has its roots in a company called M&S Computing that was started in 1969 by a group of engineers who were working for IBM in Huntsville, Alabama developing guidance software for the Saturn rocket.
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On April 22 this year, Solid Edge celebrated its 22nd birthday and ST10 is the 30th release of Solid Edge, a pretty impressive milestone for a CAD program which originated when most of us were still in high school or had just embarked on a professional career.