He outlined so many concepts not just of 2D CAD but also around the interactive use of computers. Sutherland was a person who had vision with a capital V. Jon Hirschtick: It all started in 1962, with Ivan Sutherland’s PhD thesis, ‘Sketchpad’. This market is far from “over” if you will, even though it’s quite old. Jon Hirschtick always says, “I don’t think we’re even half done yet,” and I tend to agree. It’s a very interesting market with an exciting history and an even more exciting future. But we’re also excited about the fact that all these years later, we’re still investing significantly and innovating like crazy. Jim Heppelmann: Not at all! Of course, we at PTC are very proud of our CAD heritage because, as you know, PTC produced the first successful 3D parametric modeler. Ulrich Sendler: The history of CAD, for some people in the IT-business, seems to be old fashioned and boring. Will the pure cloud-based CAD solution, Onshape, and its cloud platform, Atlas, disrupt the market again? It was very interesting for me to understand the product and technology strategy as explained by the top management in this interview. The browser-based PLM concept of Windchill was the next milestone in the 1990s. PTC’s launch of Pro/ENGINEER with its parametric modeling concept was completely disrupting the business with solid modeling software in the late 1980s. I was lucky to talk to the three of them in a video interview in late January, 2022, for the PTC part of my series on “40+ years of CAD”.
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