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Dynamic Sketcher History

Dynamic Sketcher History

Dynamic Sketcher History

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I have a question of an historical nature: Was SolidWorks the first CAD program to utilize the dynamic sketcher?  If not, which program was?

Thanks,
Matthew

RE: Dynamic Sketcher History

Probably Catia.

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RE: Dynamic Sketcher History

Nope it was Pro-E 2000i^2 or 2001 tht had this first but in 2001 with no undo you could screw up your feature and not be able to return to the pre-screw up state. Now with it's UNDO REDO feature capability that allows for multiple undo redos it's quite impressive but SolidWorks wins on the development of new functionality front.

I assume you were talking about Instant-3D or dragging geometry. If you mean driving geometry by dimensions then Catia 4 had this capability very early.

Michael

RE: Dynamic Sketcher History

Actually, I thought it was SDRC before Pro-E or CATIA

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