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
Emotional Footprint Overview
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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
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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AutoCAD Reviews
Rahul M.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2021
Drafting made easy
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AutoCAD from other similar products?
AutoCAD focuses more on providing powerful tools to get two-dimensional drawings and also offers tools that can make a three-dimensional model.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It helps to manage accurate states and calculations. it enabled us to arrange and make the entire drawings. It's really easy to make to figure in 3D space. It is great with features for managing big tasks.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It lacks really important features where u have third-party spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel are often compared. It currently has no choice where modifications to an Excel spreadsheet will warn AutoCAD about the things to modify that matching graphic objects.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It makes it easier to make drawings and revisions happen with the press of a button. There are many various ways of doing anything, and therefore the capabilities are nearly endless.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Mohammad Z.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2021
Essential Part of Engineering
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AutoCAD from other similar products?
It is power-packed with tons of tool from which you can make detailed and accurate blueprints. It has a big support community which helps to work with ease. The user interface is well structured. You can make a high-end blueprint with tools begin according to every scenario.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The tools are well organised and are provided for specific functions even very tiny functions, to make the diagram more precise and detailed. Moreover, the application supports a lot of plugins and blends with other development tools which make it ideal for blueprint design.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The application does not have any major drawbacks but they should work on their pricing and should provide discounts to students or financially not stable people to get started.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
People from the engineering sector who needs to make blueprints with precision must need this app. It is fast and well organised with a lot of tools and plugins.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Rishikesh M.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2021
A great tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AutoCAD from other similar products?
It is very precise and accurate also it offers so many features.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is very detailed and supports many integrating tools.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can offer more support and has room for improvement.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
A great product eases up the task. Has so many features and integration options, pricing is also convenient.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
