![]() Since then, “crossing the Rubicon” has become an idiom for committing to a course of action past the point of no return. It was made famous when Julius Caesar, and the army he led, crossed it in 49BC, and thereby broke Roman law and irrevocably began a civil war that led to him becoming dictator of the empire.įigure 1: Defining the length of partial fillets in Inventor 2018 The word Rubicon refers the shallow river that, in Ancient Rome, marked the northern border of Italy proper. So, instead, it launched “Project Rubicon” – a new MCAD system written from scratch. To compete with the Solidworks juggernaut, Autodesk first tried buying them, but lost to Dassault Systemes. The AutoCAD engine lacked MCAD necessities like constraints and assemblies and, in any case, it made MDT a hard sell to non-AutoCAD users. To this day, it remains such.Īt the time, Autodesk offered two AutoCAD-based packages to MCAD designers – Mechanical Desktop (MDT) for 3D modeling and AutoCAD Mechanical for 2D detailing. ![]() Self-funded by its programmers, this brand-new, mid-priced (roughly $5,000) parametric MCAD program seemed to “come out of nowhere.” In a couple of years, Solidworks had become the best selling Windows-based MCAD program, undercutting the high-end ($10,000+) market of Pro/Engineer, UGS and Catia. Autodesk began work on Inventor as a reaction to the run-away success of Solidworks.
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