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==History==
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NURBS got started with seminal work at [[Boeing]] and [[SDRC]] (Structural Dynamics Research Corporation), a leading company in mechanical computer-aided engineering in the 1980s and '90's.<ref>[http://isicad.net/articles.php?article_num=14940 "NURBS and CAD: 30 Years Together"], Ushakov, Dmitry, isicad, December 30, 2011.</ref> The history of NURBS at Boeing goes back to 1979 when Boeing began to staff up for the purpose of developing their own comprehensive CAD/CAM system, TIGER, to support the wide variety of applications needed by their various aircraft and aerospace engineering groups. Three basic decisions were critical to establishing an environment conducive to developing NURBS. The first was Boeing's need to develop their own in-house geometry capability. Boeing had special, rather sophisticated, surface geometry needs, especially for wing design, that could not be found in any commercially available CAD/CAM system. As a result, the TIGER Geometry Development Group was established in 1979 and has been strongly supported for many years. The second decision critical to NURBS development was the removal of the constraint of upward geometrical compatibility with the two systems in use at Boeing at that time. One of these systems had evolved as a result of the iterative process inherent to wing design. The other was best suited for adding to the constraints imposed by manufacturing, such as cylindrical and planar regions. The third decision was simple but crucial and added the 'R' to 'NURBS'. Circles were to be represented exactly: no cubic approximations would be allowed.
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