What Year Did CAD Software First Launch?

Let’s take a stroll through engineering tech history. Can you guess when design went digital?

1963 with Sutherland’s Sketchpad is the usual starting line (though mass adoption didn’t hit until AutoCAD in '82) — Sketchpad - Wikipedia. When I’m dating old CAD work, I crack a.plt and check the HPGL version as a quick era tell — does that match what you’ve seen?

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