UNIGRAPHICS_CAD Software3

New Name: NX  (Old Name: UNIGRAPHICS)

(Latest release - NX 6 / June 30 2008, Website - Siemens PLM software )

 

NX was originally called Unigraphics. Unigraphics software was developed by the McDonnell Douglas' Unigraphics Group, subsidiary of McAuto, the Automation division of MDC (1976 – 1991).

 

McDonnell Douglas Systems Integration groups business acquired by EDS (Electronic Data Systems) in 1991 (1991 – 2001).

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In 2001, EDS Company was renamed to UGS (2001-2002).UGS acquired Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) in 2001, Unigraphics was combined with SDRC's I-DEAS CAD product.

 

In 2002 UGS name changed to PLM World, Inc.

 

On January 24, 2007 the German electronics giant Siemens acquired EDS PLM World Inc.

 

NX is the commercial CAD/CAM/CAE PLM software suite developed by Siemens PLM Software.

The gradual addition of I-DEAS functionality into the Unigraphics code base was the basis for the current NX product line.

NX is a parametric solid / surface feature-based modeler. It uses the Parasolid geometric modeling kernel.

NX operates on Linux, Mac OS X, UNIX, and Windows (XP and Vista).

NX is widely used in the engineering industry, especially in the automotive and aerospace sectors. NX has some presence in the consumer goods design sector.

List of revisions:-

1960’s

UNIAPT by United Computing Company- 1963

1970’s

ADAM code from MCS (Pat Hanratty's company) by United Computing – 1971

UNI-GRAPHICS development – 1973

First Unigraphics system sold by United Computing - 1974

United Computing is acquired by McDonnell Douglas – 1976

First delivery of Unigraphics on the Data General Eclipse system - 1976

First delivery of Unigraphics on a DEC PDP-11/70 system  - 1977

Version R1 of Unigraphics – April, 1978

Version R2 of Unigraphics was released – July, 1978

Version R3 of Unigraphics was released – October, 1978

The last of the Unigraphics restructured series, R4 was released – March, 1979

The first release of Unigraphics under the new McAuto management was known as D1 ("D" for Double-Precision) – December, 1979

1980’s

McAuto releases Version D2 of Unigraphics – September 1980

Version D2.1 of Unigraphics was released – February, 1981

Version D2.2 of Unigraphics I – September, 1981

Version D3.0 of Unigraphics I – April, 1982

McAuto starts shipping Version D4.0 of Unigraphics – February, 1983

Unigraphics I Version D4.1 – May, 1983

Unigraphics II Version 1.0 – August, 1983

Unigraphics I Version D5.0 – March, 1984

Version 2.0 of Unigraphics II – March, 1985

Unigraphics I was released, Version D6.0 – August, 1985

Release of V3.0 of Unigraphics II – November, 1985

Version 3.1 of Unigraphics II is released – March, 1986

Version 3.2 of Unigraphics II is released – July, 1986

Unigraphics II Version 4.0 is released – November, 1986

Version 4.1 of Unigraphics II is released – March, 1987

Unigraphics II Version 5.0 is released – October, 1987

Version 5.1 of Unigraphics II is released – December, 1987

Releases Version 5.2 of Unigraphics II – June, 1988

Version 6.0 of Unigraphics II is released – December, 1988

Version 6.0 of Unigraphics II is released on Apollo UNIX workstations – March, 1988

Version 6.0 of Unigraphics II is released on Sun UNIX workstations – October, 1989

Version 7.0 of Unigraphics II is released – December, 1989.

1990’s

Version 7.0 of Unigraphics is released on DEC VaxStations running under the Ultrix operating system – July, 1990

Version 8.0 of Unigraphics is released – March, 1991

Version 8.0 of Unigraphics is released on the new HP RISC architecture workstations – July 1991

Version 8.1 of Unigraphics is released – August 1991

Version 9.0 of Unigraphics II is released – August 1992

Version 9.1 of Unigraphics II is released – December 1992

Introduction of Unigraphics V10.0 – February, 1993

Unigraphics V10.1 is released – October, 1993

Release of Unigraphics, V10.2 – March, 1994

Unigraphics V10.3 is released – June, 1994

Unigraphics V10.4 is released – February, 1995

Unigraphics V10.5 is released – May, 1995

Unigraphics V10.6 is released – October, 1995

Unigraphics V11.0 is released – January, 1996

Unigraphics V11.1 is released – May 1996

Unigraphics V12.0 is released – January, 1997

Unigraphics V13.0 is released – July, 1997

Releases V15.0 of Unigraphics – November, 1998

First version of UG/Mold Wizard – July, 1999

Releases V16.0 of Unigraphics – September, 1999

2000’s

Releases V17.0 of Unigraphics – October, 2000

UGS releases V18.0 of Unigraphics – July, 2001

EDS PLM Solutions releases Unigraphics NX – July, 2002

Unigraphics NX 2 – 2003

Unigraphics NX 3 – 2004

Unigraphics NX 4 – 2006

Unigraphics NX 5 – 2007

Unigraphics NX 6 – 2008.