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a voobshe vot vse text pisma , gde Bob McNeel rasskazivaet o vexax v istorii Rhino
- Bob McNeel
Apr 80 - Incorporated as TLM, Inc. in Spokane, WA
Apr 80 - Started selling and support accounting software that I had
developed for accounting, engineering, and architecture firms.
Apr 82 - Started selling and support FEA software to our engineering
clients.
Apr 82 - Started porting engineering software to microprocessor based UNIX
system for our engineering clients.
Apr 85 - Started doing business as Robert McNeel & Associates in Seattle.
Apr 85 - Started selling and supporting AutoCAD.
Apr 86 - Stopped selling and supporting accounting and FEA software.
Apr 86 - Stopped selling and supporting UNIX systems.
Jun 86 - Started developing AutoCAD add-ons.
May 92 - First meeting with AG. Applied Geometry (AG) came to us for
assistance in integrating their AGLib, NURBS geometry library, in AutoCAD.
AG customers included Alias Research, Spatial, Honda, and Tecnomatix
Jul 92 - First prototype in AutoCAD after about 3 days of work.
Nov 92 - McNeel/AG agreement to develop AccuModel, NURBS modeling for
AutoCAD. McNeel would do the marketing and AG would do all the development.
McNeel would provide AutoCAD development support as needed. An egg cartoon
from a tool and die client was the benchmark that we used to see if we had
the enough AGLib functionality working in AutoCAD.
Nov 92 - Michael Gibson hired as an intern. He brought Sculptura, a mesh
modeler that he had done as a class project.
Mar 93 - Sculptura released.
Mar 93 - McNeel takes over as the lead on the AccuModel development.
Jul 93 - First prototype of Sculptura 2 ready for NURBS.
Nov 93 - Sculptura 2 nicknamed Rhinoceros.
Jan 94 - New McNeel/AG agreement where McNeel was licensing AGLib from AG
and AG would provide the needed AGLib enhancements and maintenance.
Apr 94 - Rhino beta released on the Graphic Alternative BBS. This was our
first version of a public beta program.
May 94 - Dr Dale Lear hired from AG. We had found that we needed geometry
expertise in house in order to develop the functionality and usability
needed by our clients.
May 94 - Alias Research agrees to purchase AG. Alias was AG's largest
customer and they felt that one of their advantages was the geometry
technology.
May 94 - First commercial products completed using AccuModel. Ed Monk & Son
Navel Architect released the plan for an 82-foot sports fishing boat to
manufacturing.
Jul 94 - Geometry development begins in earnest. Alias didn't seem to be
interested in the geometry library business.
Aug 94 - Sculptura renamed Rhinoceros.
Aug 94 - Private showing of Rhino at SIGGRAPH.
Nov 94 - Sale of AG to Alias final.
Mar 95 - McNeel provides Alias with first installment of geometry
technology.
Jun 95 - Alias purchased by Silicon Graphics.
Jun 95 - McNeel receives the last update of AGLib.
Jul 96 - First Internet beta release. We had expect to have Rhino in beta
for 3 months at about 500 sites. Instead, we had about 3,000 beta users in
the first few weeks.
Aug 96 - Public showing of Rhino at SIGGRAPH.
Nov 96 - 5,000 beta sites. With all the input we decided to put off the
release for a few months and add a few features that everyone was asking
for.
May 97 - Last build of AccuModel. As the Rhino product progressed we decided
that it would be better to focus on the Windows version.
Sep 97 - 50,000 beta sites and growing fast without any promotional effort
on our part.
Jul 98 - 100,000 beta sites.
Jul 98 - Announced Oct release at SIGGRAPH.
Oct 98 - Release Rhino version 1.0.
Dec 98 - First 5,000 shipped.
Jan 99 - Japanese version released. First public beta of 1.1 released. First
European reseller meeting in Barcelona.
Mar 99 - First third party book on Rhino published - Rhino, 3D NURBS
Modeling from New Riders Press.
May 99 - Korean version ships.
May 99 - Michael Gibson leaves to go to work for Microsoft.
Aug 99 - Rhino 1.1 announced at SIGGRAPH 99.
Aug 99 - Gazelle technology announced at SIGGRAPH 99..
Sep 99 - AccuRender for Rhino development starts.
Dec 99 - Rhino 1.1 English edition ships.
Dec 99 - Rhino 1.1 Japanese edition ships.
Dec 99 - First Japanese users conference in Toyko.
