TrustRadius Insights for AutoCAD LT are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Versatile and Highly Useful: Users have found AutoCAD LT to be a versatile and highly useful software for drafting and designing, particularly for engineering companies. Many reviewers appreciate the range of productivity tools that help them complete tasks more quickly and efficiently, reducing time and effort. Additionally, AutoCAD LT provides powerful tools for creating and managing accurate, precise designs, minimizing the risk of errors or discrepancies.
Streamlined Interface: The software has a streamlined interface that is easy to learn and use, with intuitive menus and toolbars. This feature has been praised by many users who find it helpful in navigating through the software's various functions smoothly.
Affordable Option: Users appreciate the low cost of entry compared to the full version of AutoCAD, making AutoCAD LT an affordable option for their drafting needs. The affordability factor has made it accessible to a wide range of users, including beginners who may not require all the advanced features offered by the full version.
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AutoCAD LT Reviews
4 Reviews
Engineering
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AutoCAD LT is used in my organization to draw blueprints of machine parts and plant layouts. These drawings are helpful to both R&D Engineers and Supply Management as they help assess purchasing of tooling and the shipment to the plants that have the space for the increased volume of work.
Pros
Blueprints
Dielines
Mapping
Cons
Functionality with Adobe CC
3D Environment is missing
Updates are hard to keep up with
Likelihood to Recommend
AutoCAD LT is well suited for entry-level jobs such as a 1st year design engineer or intern. I would not recommend the software to a veteran in the field as they should be using more robust software for their line of work.
We use AutoCAD LT for developing technical layout for our customers, and small studies in 2 dimensions. It’s fast, reliable and relatively easy to use. I learnt to build my own macros and to customize the interface to my needs to get the work done even faster and once someone understand the simple logic behind the commands that are used, everyone can do it.
Pros
Easy to use
Easy to customize
Reliable
Manage big layouts without problems
Cons
Incremental savings (if possible) because autosave on big drawings took time to get done because it saves the whole file
Some custom macros that I made should be made standard (like infinite horizontal or vertical lines)
Likelihood to Recommend
Recommend to develop big 2d layouts. it’s in fact the golden standard for that kind of work, and for a reason. i worked on layouts that had literally the whole factory on multiple levels. and it handled without a sweat.
it doesn’t digest every kind of cad file, so for that reason it should be evaluated if multiple cad files are handled by the user. this program basically open just autocad files, not even all of the autodesk files.
Being a Solar developer company, AutoCAD LT is widely used within the organization. It is used for drafting, editing and dimensioning of drawing, it is cost-effective software where we are using for 2D effective drawings. It is a great user-friendly software. All of its features are very user-friendly. Using AutoCAD LT we can quickly and easily generate a plan or a design and show details to the client for review and approval. We also use AutoCAD LT to generate design layouts for construction and O&M-related activities.
Pros
Drafting and layouts generation
2D Modeling and measurements
Layers and property features
Useful commands like mirror, copy, move, array, offset and rotate etc.
File recovery feature
Cons
All individual lines are to be made a polyline to perform actions like Hatching, filling, etc which is very hectic. - Wish need not make it in the future.
Likelihood to Recommend
AutoCAD LT is more beneficial for the beginner to start in which it is easy to draft a 2D drawing, and it is comparatively lower in price than the AutoCAD original version. Even it is low in cost than the original version, we can do all detailed drawing drafting with LT version. AutoCAD LT is not suitable for 3D drawing and rendering.
AutoCAD LT replaced standard AutoCAD in my company 2 years ago as the workflow in my firm primarily relies on BIM (using Revit mainly) to issue the design drawings. However, engineers need to usually use AutoCAD LT in order to access files that were issued by 3rd parties organizations. AutoCAD LT offers wonderful level of service when it comes to 2D modeling and casual usage of DWG formats. The transition from AutoCAD to AutoCAD LT went unnoticeable in my firm, as the extra features in AutoCAD were not of great importance in our work flow.
Pros
2D modeling
Issuing drawings
Smart annotations and dimensioning tools
Cons
All LISP functions are missing on AutoCAD LT
Missing Architectural and Mechanical tool-sets
No 3D modeling of any kind
Likelihood to Recommend
AutoCAD LT is suitable for engineers that uses DWG formats casually and don't rely on AutoCAD as the main tool to issue drawings in the workflow. AutoCAD LT is best suited for firms that do not use LISP functions in AutoCAD and do not care about 3D modeling. Although AutoCAD LT has other missing functions when compared to standard AutoCAD, these features are of less importance and can't be noticed.
