Civil 3D release dates

[davis.kalnins]

Hello!

I'm doing a research about Civil 3D and Land Desktop evolution history. I ahev made up a little story how it all has come to nowadays, but i can not find exact release dates of these products. i thought maybe someone here has these dates or maybe someone knows where to look for these dates? i ve been seraching everywhere, but i really cannot find this info. can anyone help me?

thanks in advance,

Davis

[SethHall]

Hi Davis-

Although I am not sure on exact dates, a quick search on our blog revealed this for 2011:

http://beingcivil.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/04/its-official-civil-3d-2011-released-today.html

and this for 2010:

http://beingcivil.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/subscription-download-of-civil-3d-2010-.html

Hope this helps!

[ACADuser]

Release dates tend to vary based on your geographical location.  After doing a quick search, "spring" sounds like a good description of the release date (with the year appended).

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Land-Desktop/Land-Desktop-2007/m-p/1508665/highlight/true#M423...

Good Luck

[Bill_Myron]

I have just stumbled upon this timeline from Between The Lines Blog. Hope it helps!

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/autocad-release-history.html

[AllenJessup]

Did you start with David C. Arnold?

Allen

[davis.kalnins]

thank you all for your help! i think that really every spirng, something like the end of march or beginning of september, they have made the new version. thank you!

[AllenJessup]

For later Land Desktop releases and Civil 3D that is true. If you go back to early LDT releases to Softdesk and then D.C.A. You could have a couple of releases a year or nearly three years in between. Major releases were always tied to AutoCAD releases before AutoDesk bought the software.

So Release 9 was September 1987, Release 10 was October 1988 and Release 11 was October 1990. So that gives you a year or two in the fall. Release 12 was June 1992, Release 13 was November 1994 and Release 14 was February 1997. So now it's stretching to over 2 years and in the summer, fall or winter.

The current yearly cycle came about when they started selling Subscriptions (formerly VIP Program) and customers began complaining that they were paying a yearly fee and sometimes not getting any new release for 2 plus years.

DCA was renamed Softdesk in around 1992. AutoDesk bought Softdesk for $72 million in 1996 and after one release renamed it Land desktop.

I'm just old enough to remember when all this happened. Had to look up the dates.

Allen

[davis.kalnins]

thank you very much! this is very good info, can't find it so easy in web 🙂