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History of DCA, Softdesk, and Land Desktop (off topic)

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BrianHailey
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History of DCA, Softdesk, and Land Desktop (off topic)

This is kind of off topic but, does anyone know the timeline of the transition from DCA to Softdesk to Land Desktop? I've searched Google to no avail. 

 

Don't really need this info for anything other than personal curiosity.

 

Brian J. Hailey, P.E.



GEI Consultants
My Civil 3D Blog

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Hi,

 

I'm not sure about exact dates, but Softdesk was bought by Autodesk in 1996 (>>>one source<<<), the transition of the product series around DTM to the product "Land Development Desktop" was finished about 1998 or 1999 I think (the word "Development" was removed later from the product name).

And Civil or Civil-3D was first released as version 2004 (more a preview release I guess) in the year 2003 (>>>another source<<<).

 

Hope that is right and my brain has not lost to much from that good old days 😉

 

- alfred -

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Jeff_M
in reply to: BrianHailey

I posted a bunch of this information a few years back, but I'll be darned if I can find where I posted it. Allen Jessup has a brief rundown here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/Civil-3D-release-dates/m-p/2846040#M141575

 

I will keep looking for the more complete list I compiled.

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Jeff_M
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This is the one I was thinking of I guess,,,,

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/CAD-Managers/softdesk-adcadd/m-p/1416554/highlight/true#M44778

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Joe-Bouza
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Well first there were cave drawings..... Smiley Wink

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

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Murph_Map
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@Joe-Bouza wrote:

Well first there were cave drawings..... Smiley Wink


I was there then Joe, but didn't you just draw a line in the dirt first to show the parcels, then went to the cave drawings? 🙂

Murph
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Joe-Bouza
in reply to: Murph_Map

Thats right Murph, preliminary then the deliverable Smiley Wink

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

HP Z210 Workstation
Intel Xeon CPU E31240 @ 3.30 Hz
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Note: Its all Resistentialism, so keep calm and carry on

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