AutoCAD
What Is AutoCAD?
CAD software 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 Read more 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. Read lessWho Uses AutoCAD?
Architects, designers, engineers, project managers, real estate developers, students, construction professionals who want to create precise 2D and 3D drawings.
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AutoCAD Reviews for Indian Users
Arturo
Every architect's guide
Comments: Speaking of someone who used it throughout high school as a subject, AutoCad allowed me to get to know a software which at first was a challenge to learn, but which in the end is an essential tool for everyone who is into construction since it is a software which is the professional standard in many areas of engineering.
Pros:
The disposition of all the tools that this software offers for someone who is entering the world of engineering and architecture is quite pleasant since you have a platform that you can use in various ways and give it specific uses to create projects extraordinary.
Cons:
It could be that at first, the interface will not be entirely friendly to you, since you have tools everywhere and you will not know where to start, just like to start making 3D models, there are many options to design these. Also of course you should have some knowledge of geometry but it is not a big factor to determine.
Yash Pratap ratap
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Desire to be skilled .
Comments: It is a awesome experience thinking ability grows and all the mathematical skills you have to inculcate in it while making a part drawing of any thing .You have to very careful for dimensions and assembly part doing .
Pros:
It upgrading feature to know how the things you design with help of lines or other feature to have a live example how it really looks while manufacturing give immense satisfaction.
Cons:
The rendering part i didn't like take some time but at the same time stand still for some time still like a mourn it give me good spark .
Arlex
Autocad, it was my design school.
Comments: With autocad I learned to design with a computer, I learned to model, I learned CAD, it was my initial school.
Pros:
Working in AutoCAD is much easier than working on paper. We saved a lot of time and it's much simpler than that. Doing it by hand can be tedious and we also have to consider our prolixity when it comes to doing it on a sheet. As Autodesk is launching new versions, they do not change much with respect to the previous ones so that the user does not have to update to something completely unknown. The latest versions are very similar, except that they add new small functions. The configuration to print a drawing in AutoCAD in different formats is very easy. There are many formats included and we can adjust colors, margins, layers, among many other aspects. AutoCAD has been linked to multiple platforms, with the benefit of being able to export and import files of all kinds. For example, we can bring an image or a block to the software, among other applications.
Cons:
The main disadvantage is the high cost of the program, since the license costs a few dollars. Knowing how to use the software fully requires a lot of time since there are many functions that are not so well known, and even that they are of little application, since they are very specific. It requires a very powerful computer to work with the latest versions (especially in 3D). At least 2GB of RAM, 2GHz processing speed, and a space greater than 100GB on the hard drive. If we make an object in 3D, with many details, brightness settings, brightness, details of materials, for the best commercial computer we have, it usually slows down a lot. There are better software to make 3D drawings that are more sophisticated, with more functions and that do not slow down so much when working with a very heavy file.
Subodh
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Comments: Drafting, designing and overall needs of our company is cleared with this app, also mechanics and plumbers are using this software.
Pros:
everything is overall best and maybe the only problem with people nowadays is they think's they're perfect after a design or after some days. It takes time to dig down, keep practicing more, there is free trail period available for student's. verify and do it. don't wait. keep going.
Cons:
This app provides all new features and functions of AutoCAD' so there is not much problem i can say but when you keep working and working into it you can find some problem but u can solve it. make your own code and it all available. And the thing needed is time and practice.
Alex
good application for architectural plan
Comments: for us the use seems more complicated
Pros:
the application presents several panoplies, namely the electrical autocad part that allowed us to manage several architectural plans for an electrical distribution
Cons:
to make a final rendering, it is necessary to export the file in another application of rendering namely arlantis
