Timeline of UG and CCRUG

1986

• McAuto releases version 3 of UGII
• Bert Vandenberg and Bill Brown of NRCC and Mike O'Grady of Bristol Aerospace gather about 15 people at the McDonnell Douglas Canada plant in Toronto to start up a Canadian User Group for Unigraphics. The group is given a brief address by John Clancy (Vice-President of CAD/CAM Operations at McAuto) as well as a tour of the McDonnell Douglas manufacturing facilities by Bob Chessell.

1987

• McAuto sets up "McDonnell Douglas Manufacturing and Engineering Systems Co" as a division to market and develop Unigraphics. John Clancy retires and John Mazzola becomes the Executive VP of MDM&E.
• MDM&E release version 4.1 of UGII in March and version 5 in October.
• The Canadian User Group gathers at the new Canadian office of MDM&E at 33 Yonge St. for a demo of version 4. About 12 people attend

1988

• MDM&E acquires Shape Data Ltd. for its solids modeling kernel - Parasolids
• Version 6 of UGII is released in December.

• Bob Chessell gathers a group of about 18 people at the Cambridge Inn in Toronto under the auspices of a "Central Canada Regional User Group" (CCRUG).

• CCRUG meets at the Holiday Inn - Airport. About 9 people attend.

1989

• Version 7 of UGII is released containing a new module - UG/Solids - based on the Parasolids kernel.

• CCRUG meets at the Cambridge Inn. 22 people attend the meeting to hear more about the version 7 release and UGSolids.

• CCRUG meets at Husky Injection Molding Systems in Bolton. (~ 20 attendees)

1990

• CCRUG meets at the offices of Hewlett Packard in Missisauga. (~ 13 attendees)

• CCRUG meets at the offices of Digital Equipment Canada in Toronto. (~ 20 attendees)

1991

• Version 8 of UG is released.
• EDS acquires the commercial computer services business from McDonnell Douglas. The Unigraphics operation is set up as a separate business unit within EDS.

• CCRUG meets at the offices of Sun Microsystems in Markham. The featured speaker is John Baker who talks about the upcoming release of UG version 9. (~18 attendees)

1992

• Version 9 of UG is released.
• Version 10 of UG is announced and given a sneak preview at the Autofact show in Detroit.

• CCRUG meets at Spar Aerospace in Brampton. A Beta version of V10 is demonstrated and a presentation of Spar's contribution to the International Space Station is given. (49 attendees)

1993

• Versions 10.0 and 10.1 are given special releases to limited customers.

• CCRUG meets at Husky Injection Molding Systems in Bolton. V10 is demonstrated. (25 attendees)

1994

• The first fully usable release of V10 (V10.3) is released to all customers.

• CCRUG meets at GM's HQ building in Oshawa. Presentations are given by GM Oshawa and GMLG in London. (75 attendees)

1995

• UG V10.4 is released in Feb. V10.5 in May then V10.6 in Oct.
• UG running on Windows NT is previewed.

• CCRUG meets at the new Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. UG V11 is previewed and presentations by various Canadian UG Service Companies are given. (more than 50 attendees)

1996

• EDS splits from GM and becomes a separate company. GM selects Unigraphics as its vehicle development software platform.
• UG V11 is released.

• CCRUG meets at the Atlantis pavilion at Ontario Place. (57 attendees)

1997

• UG V12 is released in January and V13 in July.

• CCRUG holds the first of 2 meetings at the IRDI facility in Midland Ont. Features of this meeting are the presentation of V13 the hands-on tutorials and the MCI Renaissance coach. (97 attendees).

1998

• EDS forms the public company Unigraphics Solutions Inc. to take on the business of the former Unigraphics Division as well as the recently purchased MCAD division of Intergraph.
• UG V15 is released late in the year.

• CCRUG returns to IRDI for another successful meeting that highlights the WAVE technology and the popular hands-on seminars. Bob Chessell steps down as Chairman of the group and Geoff Webber takes on the role. (~147 attendees)

1999

• Unigraphics Solutions acquires Applicon Inc.
• UG V16 is released as well as the first release of Mold Wizard.

• CCRUG meets at Durham College in Oshawa. Highlights are a tour of the College's facilities and a Student Design contest. (~170 attendees)

2000

• Unigraphics Solutions acquires Engineering Animation Inc. (EAI)
• UG V17 is released

• CCRUG meets at the Delta Meadowvale Hotel with a large Vendor Fair a look at UG V17 and various Special Interest Group presentations.

2001

• Unigraphics Solutions becomes UGS. Then EDS acquires SDRC buys back UGS and forms them into a new division called PLM Solutions.
• UG V18 is released. A road map for the eventual merging of UG and I-DEAS is published.
• CCRUG does not hold a meeting this year. Geoff Webber steps down as Chairman and Andrew Ellis accepts the position.

2002

• EDS announces the NX product line.
• A new version of UG is initially released as V19 but production releases display as UG NX V1.

• CCRUG changes to an earlier-in-the-year format and meets at the IMTI facility in London. Highlights are an early look at UG V19 and a tour of the IMTI facilities including the Virtual Environment Lab. (~130 attendees)

2003

• EDS PLM Solutions releases I-DEAS NX1 (aka V10) in April and then UG NX2 in September.
• CCRUG and the local ICCON group agree to merge to provide a common voice for all users of EDS PLM Solutions' products in the Central Canada area.

• CCRUG holds its first combined conference at the Le Jardin Special Events centre in Woodbridge Ont. Presentations and demos of both UG NX and I-DEAS NX draw a total attendance of approximately 120)