15th Anniversary of the first SolidWorks Sale

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the first sale of SolidWorks, and SolidSmack celebrates with a short interview with CEO of Barret Technology Bill Townsend.

Today, September 6th, 2011 marks the 15th anniversary of SolidWorks selling the very first seat of their 3D product development software. Over 1 millllliooooon seats have found their way into the talented, and not so talented, hands of people around the world since. It just so happens we found the guy who laid his hands upon that first seat and asked him a couple questions.

via First seat of SolidWorks, SOLD! …15 years ago, today. >> SolidSmack.com.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .