The software is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc., first released in December 1982 by Autodesk in the year following the purchase of the first form of the software by Autodesk founder, John Walker.

DXF was originally introduced in December 1982 as part of AutoCAD 1. 0, and was intended to provide an exact representation of the data in the AutoCAD native file format, DWG ( Drawing ), for which Autodesk for many years did not publish specifications.

The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town — on December 3, 1982.

The project was not completed, however, until December 2007, at a cost of over $ 14. 6 billion ($ 8. 08 billion in 1982 dollars ).

The PRC adopted its current constitution on 4 December 1982.

He entered the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in 1982, and was scheduled to fly on mission STS-71-B in December 1986, but the mission was cancelled after the Challenger Disaster in January 1986.

The Boland Amendment had first been passed by Congress in December 1982.

Because the DIX proposal was most technically complete and because of the speedy action taken by ECMA which decisively contributed to the conciliation of opinions within IEEE, the IEEE 802. 3 CSMA / CD standard was approved in December 1982.

In December 1982, the CWRIC issued its findings in Personal Justice Denied, concluding that the incarceration of Japanese Americans had not been justified by military necessity.

In this period, the Soviets resumed EVAs, making four from the Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 space stations between December 20, 1977, and July 30, 1982.

* " The First Reactor: 40th Anniversary Commemorative Edition ", United States Department of Energy, ( December 1982 ).

The most recent governor-general to die was Sir Zelman Cowen ( 1977 – 1982 ), on 8 December 2011.

In December 1982, Lewis was felled by a serious heart attack.

* Lew Allen, Jr., July 22, 1982 – December 31, 1990

An NRC study panel on the topic met in December 1981 and April 1982.

In 1982, the so-called TTAPS team ( Richard P. Turco, Owen Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, James B. Pollack and Carl Sagan ) undertook a computational modeling study of the atmospheric consequences of nuclear war, publishing their results in Science in December 1983.

The Odyssey² was released in Japan in December 1982 by Kōton Trading Toitarii Enterprise ( コートン ・ トレーディング ・ トイタリー ・ エンタープライズ, a division of DINGU company ) under the name オデッセイ２ ( odessei2 ).

In December 1982, the fifth National People ’ s Congress revised the State Constitution to provide that the State Central Military Commission leads all the armed forces of the state.

Warnock left with Chuck Geschke and founded Adobe Systems in December 1982.

As of December 2010, five former premiers are alive, the oldest being John Cain ( 1982 – 1990, born 1931 ).

The December 20th, 1982 Cincinnati game was a rematch of the 1981 AFC Championship Game.

The first action plan of the CEPT Group GSM, approved in December 1982, requested " The services and facilities offered in the public switched telephone networks and public data networks ... should be available in the mobile system ".

NFL owners awarded the hosting of Super Bowl XX to New Orleans, Louisiana on December 14, 1982.

NFL owners voted to award Super Bowl XIX to Stanford University Stadium in Palo Alto, California on December 14, 1982.

In December 1982, Mushroom released a medley of Skyhooks songs as " Hooked on Hooks " which peaked at # 21.

On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

On December 14, in a blockbuster trade, the Diamondbacks acquired starting RHP Dan Haren from the Oakland Athletics for six players: LHP Brett Anderson, LHP Dana Eveland and LHP Greg Smith ; the above-mentioned just-acquired infielder Chris Carter ; and outfielders Aaron Cunningham and Carlos Gonzalez.

The two groups united at High Street Meeting House, Lexington, Kentucky, with a handshake between Barton W. Stone and " Raccoon " John Smith, on Saturday, December 31, 1831.

On December 6, 2007, FASA founder Jordan Weisman announced that his new venture, Smith & Tinker, had licensed the electronic gaming rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies from Microsoft.

Daniel MacKenzie of the American whaler Minerva Smith was unaware of Worth's sighting when he charted the island in 1828 and named it after his ship's owners on 1 December 1828.

Melvin Kenneth " Mel " Smith ( born 3 December 1952 ) is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

On 31 December 2008, Smith appeared on Celebrity Mastermind whilst suffering from severe pharyngitis.

The creation of NSA resulted from a December 10, 1951, memo sent by Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Director Walter Bedell Smith to James S. Lay, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council.

Osborne Earl " Ozzie " Smith ( born December 26, 1954 ) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.

Smith became a free agent for the first time in his career on November 2, 1992, only to sign a new contract with the Cardinals on December 6.

By December 1979, Muzerowa had replaced Smith as Prime Minister and secured a a fresh agreement with the more militant African factions, allowing Rhodesia to briefly revert to her colonial status pending popular elections.

Also in December 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion.

* Robert Smith ( May 18, 1927 – December 7, 1933 )

The one bright note of the season was on December 7, 2003, when defensive end Bruce Smith sacked Giants quarterback Jesse Palmer in the fourth quarter.

* December 16 – Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer

* December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor ( b. 1863 )

* December 6 – Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon ( b. 1914 )

* December 22 – Prime Minister Ian Smith declares that Rhodesia is already a republic.

* December 30 – Al Smith, American politician ( d. 1944 )

* December 31 – Pete Duel, American actor ( Alias Smith and Jones ) ( b. 1940 )

* December 3 – George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh to a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London.

* September 22 – Joseph Smith, Jr. clamied in 1838 that on this day he had taken the Golden plates from the place where they were stored, and that he began writing down the Book of Mormon from them the following December.

* December 23 – Joseph Smith, Jr., American prophet, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

* December ( early ) – Captain John Smith of the Jamestown Colony is captured by Opechancanough and then sent to Chief Powhatan for execution ; Pocahontas rescues him.

* December 23 – Thomas Smith, English scholar and diplomat ( d. 1577 )