Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Bernard Cache fonds, 1992-2011
•    Série(s): TopSolid development, 1992-2011

Personnes et institutions:

• Bernard Cache (archive creator)
• Objectile (Firm) (architectural firm)
• Bernard Cache (architect)
• Patrick Beaucé (artist)
• Jean-Louis Jammot (software developer)

Titre:

TopSolid development

Date:

1992-2011

Niveau de description archivistique:
Series

Collation:

• 19,696 digital files (12 GB)

Présentation du contenu:

Series 2, TopSolid development, 1992 - 2011, documents Bernard Cache’s contribution to the development of the software TopSolid. This series includes born-digital material and chiefly dates from 1999 - 2008.



Created in 1987 by Missler software, TopSolid was one of the first computer-aided design (CAD) software usable on portable computers. Bernard Cache was an early adopter of TopSolid and was later asked to contribute to the development of further versions of the software. It then became one of the first pieces of software to support both CAD and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), which resulted from a radical proposition to link parametric design software seamlessly to robotic manufacturing. Bernard Cache’s contribution to this project underscores his interest for mathematics, geometry, and engineering reflected in his other areas of architectural and design work.



Materials in this series portray Cache’s role in the development of the software. This includes programming records for the codes and configuration of the software which are primarily in plain text formats, still images and CAD formats (TopSolid). It also includes programming records for TopWood,an alternate software derived from TopSolid and developed to target the specificities of the wood industry. There are also a significant number of textual records, which constitutes training documents, bug reports, and correspondence (in Word and Excel formats).

Numéro de référence:

AP169.S2

Mode de classement:

The files in the folder are not arranged.

Conditions d’accès:

• Digital material can only be accessed on-site. Please contact Reference at ref@cca.qc.ca for more information. Access by appointment only.

Contient:

• AP169.S2.001, Applications files for TopSolid versions 4 and 5, 1992-2008
• AP169.S2.002, Application files and images of technical drawings related to various functions of TopSolid Version 6, 1995-2011
• AP169.S2.003, Application files, training documentation, bug reports, development plans, and images of technical drawings related to various functions of TopSolid Version 7, 2002-2011
• AP169.S2.004, Application files and images of technical drawings related to various functions of Topwood, 2000-2007
• AP169.S2.005, Various scripts and application files for unidentified version of TopSolid, 1995-2008