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. 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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