With the development of software engineering, CAD software has become of great importance, especially in the field of engineering.
In this article, we wanted to give some statistical information about CAD software. Which CAD software is most preferred, which sector uses it the most, which countries give more importance to CAD software.
Best CAD Software
Although the number of CAD software is increasing, as you can guess, the most used CAD software is AUTOCAD. AUTOCAD alone has 47.07% of the market. Then comes Solidworks and Catia. Solidworks has 13.83% of the market, while Catia has 3.72%.
CAD Software Customers by Geography
Companies using CAD Software technology software are majorly from the United States with 184.640 (55.94%), United Kingdom with 31.410 (9.52%), India with 28.197 (8.54%) customers respectively. While CAD software is spreading very quickly in the world, UNITED STATES, which is its starting point, is in the first place in this regard.
CAD Software Customers by Industry
Top industries that use CAD Software for Engineering (14.875), Project Management (11.949), Architecture (11.233). CAD software has created incredible progress, especially in the field of engineering. Both faster and more accurate results have been obtained and the application areas have expanded much more.
Market Share for Top CAD Software Technologies
Analyze the market share of popular CAD Software technologies along with information about competitors, prospects, tech stacks, funding information, contract renewal dates and more
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Ranking
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Technology
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Customers
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Market share(Est.)(%)
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AutoCAD | 172.065 | 41.07 |
| 2 | Solidworks | 57.964 | 13.83 |
| 3 | Autodesk | 39.934 | 9.53 |
| 4 | Autodesk Revit | 20.903 | 4.99 |
| 5 | CATIA | 15.606 | 3.72 |
| 6 | Autodesk Inventor | 11.612 | 2.77 |
| 7 | AutoCAD Architecture | 11.128 | 2.66 |
| 8 | AutoCAD Mechanical | 10.520 | 2.51 |
| 9 | Altium | 8.745 | 2.09 |
| 10 | SolidWorks Premium | 6.082 | 1.45 |
| 11 | Mastercam | 5.771 | 1.38 |
| 12 | Oracle Designer | 5.719 | 1.36 |
| 13 | AutoCAD MEP | 5.124 | 1.22 |
| 14 | ANSYS Mechanical | 4.504 | 1.07 |
| 15 | Archicad | 4.169 | 0.99 |
| 16 | Siemens NX | 3.627 | 0.87 |
| 17 | PTC Creo | 3.113 | 0.74 |
| 18 | VectorWorks | 2.991 | 0.71 |
| 19 | ANSYS Fluent | 2.549 | 0.61 |
| 20 | Creo Parametric | 2.360 | 0.56 |
| 21 | Mentor Graphic | 2.146 | 0.51 |
| 22 | ANSYS Workbench | 1.801 | 0.43 |
| 23 | AutoCAD LT | 1.792 | 0.43 |
| 24 | Bentley MicroStation | 1.783 | 0.43 |
| 25 | Altair HyperMesh | 1.778 | 0.42 |
| 26 | 3ds Max Design | 1.529 | 0.36 |
| 27 | Style Cad | 1.446 | 0.35 |
| 28 | Autodesk 3dcad | 1.304 | 0.31 |
| 29 | Abaqus Unified FEA | 1.217 | 0.29 |
| 30 | ANSYS CFX | 882 | 0.21 |
| 31 | SAP 2000 | 668 | 0.16 |
| 32 | HydroCAD | 639 | 0.15 |
| 33 | ANSYS SpaceClaim | 604 | 0.14 |
| 34 | ANSYS HFSS | 582 | 0.14 |
| 35 | AutoTURN | 567 | 0.14 |
| 36 | Onshape | 555 | 0.13 |
| 37 | BricsCAD | 497 | 0.12 |
| 38 | SOLIDWORKS Visualize | 487 | 0.12 |
| 39 | Autodesk Alias | 407 | 0.10 |
| 40 | Siemens Solid Edge | 381 | 0.09 |
| 41 | Autodesk Eagle | 371 | 0.09 |
| 42 | Dassault DraftSight | 323 | 0.08 |
| 43 | 3DEXPERIENCE Platform | 319 | 0.08 |
| 44 | IMSI TurboCAD | 319 | 0.08 |
| 45 | ANSYS Icepak | 253 | 0.06 |
| 46 | Creo Elements/Pro | 193 | 0.05 |
| 47 | PTC Mathcad | 179 | 0.04 |
| 48 | DataCAD | 159 | 0.04 |
| 49 | Bentley STAAD | 115 | 0.03 |
| 50 | IMSI DesignCAD | 109 | 0.03 |
What are the Benefits of CAD Software?
There are several benefits to using CAD as a design and analysis tool:
- Visualization
CAD software that allows you to create and visualize 2D or 3D objects allows you to make as many changes as you need with less effort than drawing with a pencil on paper.
- Detail
Digital representation in CAD is very close to real life and ensures accuracy to a certain level. You can add as much detail as you need through the software.
- Optimization
It is very difficult to find errors during the design process. However, although CAD software is not perfect, it can help you with this very reliably. More complex CAD programs even let you run simulations to test for defects.
- Expertise
There is a CAD software specifically designed for almost every professional industry. This makes it widely applicable.
- Realization
You have the opportunity to bring your digital design to the real world as a physical object with the help of fabrication technologies and CAM software, which would be more difficult and expensive with traditional fabrication methods.
In addition, you can increase the productivity of the designer with CAD software. You can design more projects in a short time. This increases the quality in design. By creating a large database, it enables easy access to data to everyone who uses CAD software.
