Item: AutoCAD
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AutoCAD

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our design and engineering departments use AutoCAD for in-house engineering.

Pros and Cons

Pros

User friendly with hot keys
Works seamlessly with Autodesk's Inventor
Great library of parts

Cons

I have serious crash problems even though I'm using all the Autodesk requirements. Other software programs don't crash on me as much as AutoCAD does.

Return on Investment

Faster production path
Confident engineering
Sharing of files between our design/engineering department

Alternatives Considered

We use Inventor, but AutoCAD is more friendly in the 2D world for quick technical drawings, or for adding electrical notes.

Other Software Used

Adobe Acrobat DC, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator CC

Likelihood to Recommend

Excellent for CNC machining or transferring raster images into vector files. I also use Illustrator to save the raster image to outlines. Then I output it as a DXF file.

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