AutoCAD Reviews: 4.5/5 — Highly Rated

I use AutoCAD almost every day and I am still surprised how helpful it is! AutoCAD is a proper drawing tool for engineers from any field. Besides AutoCAD is a handy tool both for newcomers and experts. When you don't have sufficient experience you can easily create projects using simple basic tools. Then AutoCAD gives you an opportunity to expand your skills and quality of the drawings with the help of professional functions. Furthermore, using AutoCAD you can finish your project quickly. There are a lot of tools for increasing your efficiency, such as text commands, blocks, windows, blanks. That's amazing that you can create drawings in your personal creative style. Besides, you can download blocks from the internet. There are a lot of commonly used details which are not easy to create by yourself. And I really like to make hidden remarks, which are not printed. It is helpful when someone is checking your project. One another great function - creating your own lines. AutoCAD doesn't have all the type of lines I need, but I can always design my own.

There are a lot of uncertainties. But from my point of view, you should spend some time studying literature and tutorials and you will rapidly achieve your goal. If files are too big AutoCAD could have crashed. After that, you can lose all the editing.

AutoCAD is one of the best CAD tools. And almost every engineering company is used to use it. So it is never a problem to share your projects in AutoCAD dwg format.

AUTOCAD is a complete CAD tool. it has a lot of functions. And itis easy to use.

Basically you need a powerful computer for working in AutoCAD.

Designing engineers projects. Creating drawing for reports.

AutoCAD is the best tool for engineering drawings. I use it since 2010 and I am pretty happy with it. The best thing is that you can always find something new there and to expand your horizons. AutoCAD makes your work much easier! Moreover, it helps you to create drawings which look in a very professional way. I adore blocks there. You don´t need to draw details again every time, you just can create once block from the detail and then use it. And you easily can change the dimension of the block and other characteristics. AutoCAD also allows to import and export files from other programs, which sometimes is extremely helpful. Furthermore, basic tools in AutoCAD are intuitive for beginners. And then you can improve your skills gradually.

Iа you work with big drawings you need a powerful PC usually. And definitely, it would be a bad idea to install AutoCAD on your laptop. A lot of times I lost the editings I made because of errors in AutoCAD. It is very sad.

AutoCAD is great and useful for any kind of engineer. Whether you are an electrical engineer or energy engineer. The interface allows you to solve a wide range of tasks.

AutoCAD is full featured for many architecture and engineering uses but it is intuitive and relatively easy to use.

There is always more to learn. Not necessarily a bad thing though. AutoCAD can do just about anything you want it to do

AutoCAD is used by most engineering firms. So our CAD drawings are usable by almost all of our clients..

Years ago (not so long ago actually...) engineers used large drawing tables and plenty of pencils of different thickness. Luckily, AutoCAD is born and we have greatly improved our work. You can create everything with AutoCAD from simple to incredibly complex drawings. The best part is that you have a right to make mistakes while working. and then you don't have to destroy the whole drawing. AutoCAD offers a lot of tools to make your job easier. I adore the windows there. You can draw in the first window and then create a final drawing in the next windows with frames and inscriptions. It makes my job a lot easier because I can use blanks. Text commands help you as well. You don't need to look for the tool every time just remember the text command for it. And I like to make notes with not printed text.

When the drawing is too big, AutoCAD becomes not stable and you can lose your success if you forgot to save the file. It is obvious that you can't open a file from the newest version in the oldest one. This is a nuisance. AutoCAD has a loooot of features, but beginners do not really know about them and a lot of users still utilize just simple functions.

AutoCAD is a necessary engineer tool. My advice is to get to know some literature about it, just to realize what you can create and how AutoCAD can improve your efficiency.

Once you know how to use it’s a quick program to operate. It’s precise and detailed and there’s a lot you can do with it.

Lines can be difficult and it’s so complex that it can take a lot of training to really get good.

I’ve used this program most recently for floor plans.

1. A good choice for computer-aided mechanical design. 2. You have the opportunity to verify your 3d designs so that each detail matches what is going to be manufactured. 3. Availability of several formats for printing the plans. 4. Your files can be used by 3D printers and thus carry out the manufacture of the products. 5. Its interface is very friendly. Certainly you need practice to know the advantages of each function and how they operate. 6. As a project engineer, allows you to have control of your projects and work in conjunction with your work team.

1. It is slow if you are working with complex 3d designs. 2. Sometimes the program is closed or hangs up and some of the plans are lost. 3. It is an expensive program. 4. Although there are some free licenses for universities, they expire after a certain time. For universities in developing countries it is very hard to afford licenses. Therefore, so many engineering students do not have an opportunity to have a deep approach with the program.

Design of a friction machine. "pin on disk" configuration. Design of static particle disperser, eductor and coupon holder for sand retention test cell. Also, ergonomic improvements: design and construction of tools for installing “block beam”, “cow face” and “crossbows”. Besides design of riveting hammers.

AutoCAD is a fantastic program for planning and implementing construction and design projects.

AutoCAD has a learning curve, but once you are familiar it becomes much easier to use.

AutoCAD allows me to quickly make several versions of the same project to help the customers visualize their options.

The interface of the new versions is very good and user friendly.

Consumes more ram memory. I wish it was faster.

To make process sheet and process drawings.

I like being able to flesh out designs without constraints or requiring parametric relations. AutoCAD is great for the first stages of design when you might need to slash and hack like drawing a napkin sketch. Other software is not as free/open, often requiring specific measurements to be entered.

I dislike the rendering ability of AutoCAD. AutoCAD lacks fully functional ray tracing inside of AutoCAD itself which makes it very difficult to get accurate renderings without another software to help. I draw a lot of parts and use renderings to make them appeal to consumers of the products. Without a fully functional add-on or standalone product, AutoCAD is not able to deliver highly realistic renderings out of the box.

AutoCAD is used to edit drawings of machine parts that are more than 20 years old. This lets us keep a vast database of almost every part that has ever been made by our facility and we can easily share the DWG format with other platforms.

I like that Autocad is extremely accurate for designing massive event spaces. You can easily create blocks containing like items, modify and create unique items for easy modification and this software is the front runner for architecture, blueprints and other building design.

I dislike looking at dark colors with bright neon layers after a while, but it makes it easier to see what you're doing. You have to really get used to working in the skeleton view and might be difficult to use if you're not able to visualize objects without seeing them whole.

I design floorplans, as well as booth layouts and put together parts and panels lists for our warehouse to pull.

I really appreciate the user interface for the software.

My least favorite aspect of using AutoDesk is the fact that sometimes it crashes on me.

I use AutoCAD for pursuing another degree in Engineering. I have used it for floor layouts, modeling machinery parts for internships.

AutoCAD is a wonderful Engineering design software. Ease of use Wide range of excellent features

I feel autodesk develops unnecessary newer versions of autoCAD without any reasonable additional features

Since the use of AutoCAD, our company has been able to meet more project demands. We now complete designs within shorter period

It gives you many tools to draw any kind of drawing on a sheet whether it's 2D or 3D dimensions. For industrial purpose it has helped me a lot. It is very versatile software distributed with various functions and features which helps you to recreate your drawing even in a more better way. AutoCAD is a very reputed software in industry of engineering and development which leads the our technology in a new way.

AutoCAD offers so much of tools and some of them are complex to learn for a new user. Drawing made by AutoCAD affects when we have to make a very complex project and we have to gain very deep knowledge to do all that thing. AutoCAD requires much powerful platform to run on any system. It so much hangs on my windows 7 but I think it should work fine with windows 8.

Whenever it comes for drafting and drawing in engineering, I have never thought of any other software because AutoCAD is with me. It is very useful software which helps in drawing many complex drawing in very less time. Really this software is a boon to engineering field and I will recommend every user to go for AutoCAD first, then you will never ever think of any other software.

This app has so many features like trim, fillet and so on which increases the speed of your work and it also has blank white and black sheet where you can work as per your need. AutoCAD is much powerful tool that has helped me to draw any kind of drawing of any kind of object.

It takes so much time to open the software because it contains too much files. Android version is AutoCAD is not so developed but it's fine.

This is very user friendly app that I love to use it everyday. I will recommend everyone to use it. This app has saved my so much of time.

I like AUTOCAD because I can make plans for my telecommunications projects, it allows me to simulate the spaces available for the installation of new equipment. I also like it because in some projects I have to install pipes in the streets and this allows me to have a clear vision of how the project will be executed.

I would like to use it at home since I only use it at work, but it is expensive to license the software for me.

I use it to make the blueprints of my projects and so when the technicians are going to install they already know in what place and in what space each equipment should be placed.

The thing I most liked about AutoCAD is that it is really easy to use and develop applications in this software.

The thing I dislike in this software is that sometimes my screen freezes and my application gets distorted.

I projected an entire robot using AutoCAD. There were different specifications for this project, but this software is awesome and I didn't face any problem when developing the application.

I like that it have a large library with several design elements. I can design based on layers, so I can see all my work as a single set or separately. Plans can be exported very conveniently and printed to the scale I need. Its loading time is fast and I can export animated videos of my projects.

The only thing I don't like is the long installation process.

I use it in my work to design plans for my clients' projects, also in the design of aircraft structural repair plans. I have also created animations of parts and components in 3D

This is the best software for both mechanical and civil designs. Layout designing features, tools and all other code based options are the best in its area. The software is easy to use. You can easily get templates for layouts. In most cases, there are lots of libraries available for common items. Files can be shared and opened by other softwares (like solidworks and other engineering design softwares). They have student version that is free for use. So, people can actually learn while they are student.

The software takes more time to load. It can be difficult to learn initially. Not enough functions and options like similar other softwares. Customization can be difficult sometimes. You would have to be very expert in knowing and using all the features available. Its not easy to find. In some cases, it has difficulty reading other versions or other software files. If the layers are more than a limit, the performance of the software decreases subsequently. The user interface has lots of options available but they are not easily accessible. Sometimes saving file in different version (like pdf, dwf, dxf etc) are difficult to do and sometimes can not be read in other softwares.

Engineering design, Layout design, Mechanical parts designing, Civil drafting and problem solving.

AutoCAD is a terrific and fast drafting program. It is a great drawing tool for our carpentry. I have been using AutoCAD for a long time and find it an excellent tool for creating construction documentation that could be used by all disciplines in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. AutoCAD's ease of use makes it stand out amongst other software. It's many features are made easy to access given their customizable palette and typable commands. I like its myriad of options to do the same task best of all.

Nothing to dislike, however it has some limitations. It isn't cheap and it takes up a lot of storage space. license of the program has a high cost, it requires a computer that has a lot of memory capacity to use the autocad.

I love being able to create drawings with specific dimensions and details to present a clean plan for clients. We use it as a 2D and 3D drawing tool! We use it for our production tehnical drawings and also for 3D presentstion to our customers.

The software is the panacea for any kind of architectural problem.( Not counting Revit) 2D to 3D, this software can draw whatever your hearts wishes to design. So many options to choose from and it delivers everytime.

Very very very expensive. Very steep learning curve. Not for the average Joe. Definitely need a course or a series of YouTube videos to just understand the layout

AutoCAD lets us design 3D printer models to create wireframes, architectural building blueprints.

AutoCAD is primarily used in industry for creating design and structure or real world project, without actually creating them.Your can draw almost anything weather 2D or 3D using AutoCAD. Its Drawling meaturement are very accurate.

You need to join a dedicated training course before actually starting to use AutoCAD for designing.

You can create Engineering designs for your projects using AutoCAD

Autocad makes every figure be visualized even more understandable and detailed.

At first, it was difficult to navigate because there are so many commands to use.

By using AutoCAD, you can visualize each product that we want to do.

The different functions and purposes offered. Can do anything from 2D to 3D modeling andcan incorporate 2020

The time it takes to load and open. The program file is very large

Creating designs that help the customers to see the proposals visually

Awesome product to use. Has amazing accuracy for The electrical engineering we do. The pdf import feature is very useful to use.

It can be very laggy at times with an older computer.

Electrical engineering

Ease of use. Accuracy. Speed. Cleanliness

Commands. Having to still type. Why not voice activated? Cost

Speed to market. Accuracy.

I like the fact that everything is drawn in scale and then easily translated to paper space. I like the referencing that is possible to help expedite workflows.

Usually if you run into a bizarre issue, you have to spend a lot of time digging to find out what is causing it.

Collaborating with Architects, Electricians and our internal techs

Fast Detailing and Sketching of projects

3d and rendering take too long AND NOT WORK PROPERLY

shop drawings, detailing and presenting my projects to my client.

I love the strait and rigged nature of of the software. 90 degree angles are my favorite and they're so easy to make.

Some of the tools needed are hidden in menus that may not be easy to find when you're starting out.

I draw wiring plans and building and room layouts.

Complete set of tools useful in the design process, very friendly software.

It would be great to incorporate flattening tools into the software.

Streamline the design process allowing better products at minimum cost. excellent for prototyping.