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Notably one of the first people who whipped out a credit card to buy the 3D CAD/modeling program Rhinoceros 3D at v1.0 on the first day it was available for purchase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHp7C2Ccu94

which engendered the opensource node editor Grasshopper eventually expanding to a ménagerie of animal-named support applications.

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By that stage the firm was a big user of Catia especially on the production side of things. They probably used Rhino at the design stage.

Rhino 3d was the first 3d modeling app I had ever used. I was in high school. It was so hard :-) but very cool.

Used to take an hour to render a simple teapot. I could probably render that in realtime now.

Yeah, I used to have to borrow my son's gaming computer to calculate toolpaths in pyCAM....

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