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Does anyone remember ComputerVision DesignView?

sdickinson
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Does anyone remember ComputerVision DesignView?

Does anyone remember ComputerVision DesignView from the early '90s? I seem to recall that it was really rather good. Can anyone suggest a modern equivalent for 2D parametric sketching? Alternatively, does anyone have an old copy of DesignView I could have?

Cheers,

Sam
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I recall that when PTC acquired ComputerVision, there was some CV
product that was renamed Pro/Desktop.
Wasn't that DesignView?

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WOW! Now I feel old...

I remember Designview back in the days when we were running CV Personal Designer.



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Wasn't Designview started by some of the people who eventually formed Solidworks?



BTW, as I remember, Designview was not a 'finished' product, and had some hiccups...



AFAIK, Personal Designer is/was still available on the web, without the surfacing and CAM modules.



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Pro/DESKTOP was orginally called DesignWave when it was a secret project at ComputerVision. I was at the last Computervision conference in San Diego and had to sign a non-disclosure to see it. PTC bought them a few months later and renamed it as Pro/Desktop.

I think Design View might be referring to Personal Designer.

Joe

I think pro/desktop was originally called designwave. (I might be wrong)


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Well fortunately some of you do...

My thanks to John for sending me copy of the software, and also to various other people for their suggestions. However I don't think there is an alterative solution to this piece of 1980's software (yes, it is that old).

I have actually put in a request to PTC that they should re-instate it because it is/was brilliant (see attached). The simplest/best 2D parametric solutionthat I can find.

Sam

PS

- Pro/DESKTOP (aka DesignWave) may have used some components of DesignView, but it was 3D whereas DesignView is pure 2D.

- DesignView was originally developed by a company called Premise (who were subsequently bought by CV). The key individuals at Premise then went on to be founding members of SolidWorks.

So there you go...

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