What is AutoCAD?
AutoCAD is computer-aided design (CAD) software that is used for precise 2D and 3D drafting, design, and modeling with solids, surfaces, mesh objects, documentation features, and more. It includes features to automate tasks and increase productivity such as comparing drawings, counting, adding objects, and creating tables. It also comes with seven industry-specific toolsets for electrical design, plant design, architecture layout drawings, mechanical design, 3D mapping, adding scanned images, and converting raster images. AutoCAD enables users to create, edit, and annotate drawings via desktop, web, and mobile devices.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
96 Plan to Renew
81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love AutoCAD?
Pros
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Respectful
- Performance Enhancing
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AutoCAD Reviews
James Michael W.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2021
Efficient and robust CAD platform
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AutoCAD from other similar products?
AutoCAD provides a high-quality feature set in computer-aided design. It facilitates integration between different designers and engineers, which means that the development process is unified. Drawing, 2D geometry and 3D modeling are some of the most versatile features of this platform. provides built-in components in complex designs and allows you to simplify design reuse with the built-in search engine.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is a robust platform that integrates design, engineering, and computer-aided manufacturing. It allows to create excellent 3D models of mechanical parts. It provides very useful modeling options that our team uses, such as parametric modeling, direct modeling, surface modeling, and more. Allows you to create, edit or view drawings from the web application or through the AutoCAD mobile application. It allows importing or exporting PDF files to facilitate collaboration with the work team.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Although it is a very effective platform used by the engineering team. It is not easy to use, which means that its learning curve is steep.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AutoCAD offers multiple tools for the development of high quality drawings, geometry and 3D modeling. For these reasons I recommend the implementation of this platform.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Inspires Innovation
Romney S.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2021
Potential is there to be better
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AutoCAD from other similar products?
The ability to access any DWG file in AutoCAD with Autodesk’s cloud, as well as with leading cloud storage providers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
When using text settings I'm able to create single or multiline text as a single text object. Format the text, columns, and boundaries. In terms of data extraction, I'm able to extract information from objects, blocks, and attributes, including drawing information. Survey reports from devices like total stations can directly be input into the software and help in reducing the work. it also provides android & iOS support, which helps in reading the drawings on the go.
What do you dislike most about this product?
File transfer can be difficult once the file size has gotten too large also whenever I have a complicated Jobsite drawn up, with a lot of data, the file can become too large to email to clients or colleagues.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is great product with a user friendly interface, very simple and flexible.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Furqan Ali S.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2021
Out standing designing Tool, says, Come on design!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AutoCAD from other similar products?
It should have Pure 3d designing like catea.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Best for the achitectural desigin regarding the civil engineering, mechanical and the electrical desinging.
What do you dislike most about this product?
No dislikes.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
best for the beginners and for the basic tool for the designing world.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
