Materials & Manufacturing · Recorded milestone
Computer-aided design
Recorded year1963
General Motors and IBM's DAC-1 goes into use in April 1963, letting car designers draw and change parts on a screen, one of the first industrial CAD systems.
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- TransistorRecorded · 1947requires
- Stored-program computerRecorded · 1948requires
- Light penRecorded · 1955enables
Led to
- CAD on personal computersRecorded · 1982enables
- 3D printingRecorded · 1984enables
- Building information modellingRecorded · 1987enables
- STL 3D model filesRecorded · 1987enables
- Parametric 3D CADRecorded · 1988enables
- SmartphoneRecorded · 1994requires
- Graphics processor (GPU)Recorded · 1999requires
- 3D FinFET transistorRecorded · 2011requires
- Universal Scene DescriptionRecorded · 2016enables
- Generative design softwareRecorded · 2018enables
- Gate-all-around transistorsRecorded · 2022requires
- Proof-carrying factory recipesForecast · ~2036enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.