Following on from my previous post on BIM History, here are some more covers from RUN - the RUCAPS Users Newsletter.
RUN 16 - Sept 1988
The Front and back covers featured drawing competition winners from 1987 - these demonstrated the ability to generate coordinated elevation views from the 2.5/3D model. This may not seem like a big deal nowadays but this was done 37 years ago - over a decade before Revit was born.
RUN 17 - Winter 1988
This was no longer just a RUCAPS newsletter - but for users of all t² software. This issue was sponsored by "Real Image" who specialised in generating photo-realistic images from RUCAPS & Sonata models.
RUN 18 - Spring 1989
I was editor in chief of the magazine by this stage.
We decided to publish a Technical Supplement that contained all the RUCAPS technical articles from the previous 18 issues - updated.
The front and back covers again showed examples of coordinated elevations generated from the 3D model. In those days we did not have tools to patch up the elevation & section views (like Filled Regions or the Linework tools in Revit) - so the models had to be pretty good for it to work.
RUN 23 - Spring 1990
RUCAPS was stuck on expensive DEC or Prime mini-computers (a misnomer!) - these had very limited interaction with any other computers or software. Sonata was running on less expensive hardware - Unix workstations from Apollo and Silicon Graphics. With the increasing use of Sonata the drawings and images were becoming more sophisticated.
By this stage I was working in Australia - still on RUCAPS, so I continued to contribute to the RUN newsletter in the UK as an international user.
The RUCAPS and Sonata User Group in Australia was very active - we held national conferences and published an Australian newsletter . . .
