00:00From pencil to artificial intelligence, here are 70 years of computer-assisted drawing.
00:05A history where each generation of tools has changed the way we design, draw, and build.
00:12It all began in 1957.
00:14An American engineer, Patrick Enratti, wrote Pronto, considered to be the first numerically controlled machine programming system.
00:23For the first time, a drawing becomes data, a sequence of instructions that a machine can understand.
00:28The line becomes code.
00:30In 1963, at MIT, Ivan Sutterland presented Sketchpad.
00:35He draws directly on the screen with a light pen.
00:39This marks the birth of the graphical user interface and interactive computer-aided design.
00:45The very first digital pencil has just appeared.
00:48In the 1970s, the industry equipped itself.
00:51General Motors, IBM, Boeing, and Lockheed use large mainframe computers to produce plans.
00:57These plans still come out on paper, drawn by machines, but they now come from a calculation and no longer
01:03with one hand.
01:04In 1977, in France, Dassault Systèmes developed a three-dimensional surface tool for designing fighter jets.
01:11mirage.
01:12Her name will be Katia.
01:13It will become the world's leading aeronautical company and it was born in France.
01:18In 1982, everything changed with the microcomputer.
01:23Autodesk launches Autocat.
01:24The drawing board leaves the design office to be placed on any desk.
01:29Computer-aided design is becoming more widespread and accessible to everyone.
01:34In 1987, in Hungary, Graphisoft released archi-CAD.
01:39We no longer draw lines, we construct a virtual building, with walls, slabs, doors.
01:46This principle is the direct ancestor of BIM.
01:49In 1989, China entered the game.
01:52In Beijing, Nekak Sa and PKPM, from the Chinese Academy of Building Research, began calculating the
01:59structures of the country.
02:00Chinese CAD is launched.
02:02In 1995, parametric three-dimensional modeling arrived on Windows, with software like Solidworks.
02:11Modifying a dimension updates the entire part.
02:13The model becomes intelligent.
02:16Revi appeared in 2000.
02:18Founded in 1997, Revi Technologies Corporation offers a simple and powerful idea.
02:24A single model, from which the plans, sections and nomenclatures are drawn, always consistent with each other.
02:30In 2002, Autodesk acquired Revi for approximately $133 million and popularized the term BIM, Building Information Modeling.
02:38Revi is becoming the global standard for engineering firms.
02:41In the 2010s, the model went into the cloud.
02:45With BIM 360 and the open IFC format, architects, engineers, and companies are finally working on the same model, at the same
02:52moment.
02:53Meanwhile, China is catching up.
02:56Zucad and Gustar CAD offer lower-cost alternatives to AutoCAD, and Glodon dominates cost estimation and BIM.
03:03construction site.
03:04Thousands of Chinese offices are equipping themselves with local tools.
03:07Since 2022, the issue has become strategic.
03:10Beijing encourages the use of domestic software in design and BIM, with internally developed geometric engines.
03:18China wants to control its entire design toolkit.
03:21This is a matter of sovereignty.
03:23Starting today, a new chapter begins.
03:26Autodesk format, generative design, digital twins, artificial intelligence.
03:32The computer introduces some variations even before the first stage.
03:37From the pencil, an artificial characteristic, the tools have changed, again and again.
03:42But behind every screen, it is always the designer who gives meaning to the project.
03:47The tools are changing.
03:48The feature remains.
03:49Intent tools.
