Yesterday in the Autodesk Portland office we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Autodesk Inventor, and partied like it was 1999, when Autodesk Inventor was born in our.
A flashback to 1999 Autodesk Inventor R1 codename Rubicon
We even got Inventor R1 running for people to try their old school Inventor modelling skills. It was amazing to have all the fun conversations, wear old Inventor shirts, enjoy food and drink, and celebrate a big milestone of 20 years. The first customer ship date was September 20, 1999 and I am certain there a few of you who have been using Inventor since that data and maybe participated in the Inventor Rubicon Beta an public beta download program that I posted publicly back in 1999.
So much has changed and that provides an indicator of looking forward 10-20 years from now on how much things will change when we are in 2039 looking back. I remember trying to make pseudo surface objects like motorcycle gas tanks and exhaust pipes in the Inventor R1, 2 and 3…