Yes, now you would send out an invoice every 12 months. No more just upgrading before the new release. And Bob decided that they would make the annual maintenance to what all of us are paying for today. Fighting this was creating a drain on the cash flow. Things were going along fine until a suit was filed against Bob for copyright infringement on his original Draft-Pak package. CADKEY was purchased by Bob Bean from Baystate Technologies, owner of Draft-Pak, a drafting enhancement add-on package for CADKEY. These meetings could be huge either sponsored by the local dealer or by CADKEY directly. Seminars and user group meetings touting the new features which were significant and numerous. It was incredible we would have an event of the release of a new version of CADKEY.
#Ironcad cost upgrade
The upgrade was about twice cost of the annual maintenance and included the maintenance. You could get back on maintenance as long as you had the current version. If you went past the new release you would have to upgrade. Remember we had to ship disks to all of the customer with each new upgrade. Productive enhancements were being added like crazy. The 1990's - The Age of CADKEY The Two CAD Programs that Set the Path to 3D MCAD Chaos!ĬADKEY offered an annual maintenance. I am sure if they would have used the no copy protection marketing of Autocad the CAD world would have looked quite a bit different.
#Ironcad cost serial
It was different than Autocad, since it had a dongle or module that would have to be plugged into the serial port to allow it to run. CADKEY or Catia? Boeing’s Billion-Dollar 3D CAD Mistake! I started selling CADKEY. Their lack of interoperability is beyond belief. Dassault is responsible for keeping Boeing one of the most ignorant and isolated manufacturing companies. I have worked with Boeing and Catia for over 30 years. Millions? Maybe Billions could have been saved just in the initial costs.
#Ironcad cost Pc
Catia did not make it to the PC for another 15 years.
Soon Boeing Commercial had 1200 seats of CADKEY and were heavily into PC base 3D CAD!! If Boeing would have standardized on CADKEY they would have not had the horrible fiasco switching from Catia 4 to 5. I am sure seats of Catia 3 were over a $100,000.00. CADKEY sold for $3,500.00 and Computervision was $250,000 per seat. In Flight deck every draftsman, designer and design engineer soon had a seat. By 1988 CADKEY had the FastSurf add-on and was equal to or superior to Catia 3. Mostly providing cuts of the lofted OML of Airplane. All Catia 3 had over it was they could handle rudimentary surfaces. Like Catia 3 and Computervision CADDS 4 it was 3D wireframe. It took me two weeks of lunch hours to get proficient enough to do a pilot project. I was whining and someone told me of a PC based 3D CAD system on two Compaqs. The 1980's - 3D CAD - The Beginning Boeing had just started using Catia 3 and there was no chance of a jobshopper getting on that system. I had 4 years of 3D Computervision CADDS 4 under my belt and took a board job at Boeing Everett just to get home. I was introduced to CADKEY in 1986 while on contract at Boeing. I don’t think they offered a maintenance. Sadly, it creeped into the industrial/mechanical industry, setting some very strange standards. It was being passed around like hotcakes. No one was willing to spend $3,500.00 to replace the drafting board. But with no copy protection this program grew. So we were still in a “Blue Print” world. Remember we still had to print the drawings. The only thing it had over the board was you could easily move the views. You could debate whether this package was even a CAD package. But this idiosyncratic program set the standard for the electronic drawing from that that point on. It was designed for architectural design. Every once in a while I would get a copy and take a look. Even though it was readily available I don’t remember using it again. I must have not been interested in an electronic drafting package. I already had been in 3D CAD since 1982 with Computervision so this was a huge step backward. I did my backyard fence and it was tough. It had to be delivered on 5.25 floppies because I remember running it on my IBM luggable on the tiny amber screen.
I remember getting my first copy of Autocad. Autocad was released with virtually no copy protection.
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