Is Autocad important nowadays in marketplace?

Is Autocad important nowadays in marketplace?

Yes, it is still important but the move is towards programs such as Inventor and Solidworks.

Despite all the CAD software available there are still people who insist on doing their drawings by hand. Does CAD make manual drafting any less important?

Yes, it is still important but the move is towards programs such as Inventor and Solidworks.

 

Despite all the CAD software available there are still people who insist on doing their drawings by hand. Does CAD make manual drafting any less important?

OMG! What is that words "inventor" and "solidworks" are they also needed in learning autocad?

Neither is required to be learned as part of AutoCAD as they are both advanced CAD programs fully capable of standing on their own. They come with unique features that won't be found in AutoCAD or any of the AutoCAD clones like Draftsight.

You can find out more about each by visiting their respective websites. Inventor is an AutoDesk product. Solidworks is a Dassault Systemes product.

http://usa.autodesk.com/autodesk-inventor

http://www.solidworks.com/

Neither is required to be learned as part of AutoCAD as they are both advanced CAD programs fully capable of standing on their own. They come with unique features that won't be found in AutoCAD or any of the AutoCAD clones like Draftsight.

 

You can find out more about each by visiting their respective websites. Inventor is an AutoDesk product. Solidworks is a Dassault Systemes product.

 

http://usa.autodesk.com/autodesk-inventor

 

http://www.solidworks.com/

I see. That is why Autocad 2012 have also Inventor. I have inventor here in my laptop. I can also learn it, like autocad? Which one is easiest; autocad or inventor? Is there any free tutorial for Inventor?

Is Autocad important nowadays in marketplace?

First,

What field are you interested in?

Civil? Architectural? Mechanical? Electrical? other?

Plain AutoCAD does not include Inventor. I think it would be easier to learn Inventor if you did NOT know AutoCAD as they are worlds apart in the way they function.

I don't know about the availability of free tutorials for Inventor but I'm certain there must be some available. JDM has some at his website.

Students of any age, anywhere in the world can download Inventor for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity

there is a rather extensive set of free video tutorials linked from that website.

There are also Autodesk Graphics Arts - related softwares available from that site.

I think first you need to define your aptitude and interestest.

What would your dream career be?

Be specific. Provide url links to work examples similar to what you want to do for a living.

For anything related to Building Design and Construction, the Revit and Navisworks platforms are becoming more and more popular, with many companies dropping AutoCAD-based software applications altogether. AutoCAD still has a purpose and will for a good while longer I imagine.

How long will we continue to hear that "AutoCAD is dead" before it actually gets the message and up and dies? LoL

Reminds me of the "DOS is dead" mantra we heard for such a long time. One can still get Free-DOS and DR DOS and I think there are even DOS emulators for people who want to run old games under a Windows GUI.

Well, DOS is dead on a production standpoint in the majority of computer users. But it was a vital necessity for things to come into what they are today. As far as I'm concerned, at my company AutoCAD is dead only in my specific job demands. We are a full design firm, complete with all levels of engineers and designers. When our Architects, Structural, MEP designers and engineers (and whoever else) can all be in one project that is self coordinating and self collaborating then I see zero need for AutoCAD as it simply cannot give all us as a team the benefits that Revit have to offer. Granted, Revit has its downfalls but each version is getting closer and closer to a true complete package.

I still have and always will have a love for AutoCAD thought.

AutoCAD will continue to be important in the market place because you'll always have individuals and companies that do not want to invest a lot of money in a multitude of programs that they will only use once in awhile. A general purpose CAD program, like AutoCAD, fills a definite need and will continue to do so for some time to come. Will we see an AutoCAD 2025? Who knows. If AutoDesk does not want to go there and instead pushes its customers to upgrade to something "better" than maybe it will die on the vine and the "clones" will end up filling the niche AutoCAD abandons.

I think the only thing that makes AutoCAD vulnerable is the rise of parametric CAD applications. Other than that, AutoCAD is simply an extension of the drawing board in my opinion. Not that it's a bad thing, as I still love the 2D capabilities of AutoCAD. They are far superior to any other CAD application that I personally have used.

I still find DOS (OK, Command Prompt as it is now labelled) far quicker for directory listings than anything Windows has on offer. It iscertainly not dead as far as I am concerned. And AutoCAD will outlive me in the workplace.

Good point dbroda, Dos is dead but the command line will always live on. Some times it is just So much easier to complete a task at the command line.

I remember the old days when the Apple Mac users made fun of the command line but now even Apple OSX has a powerful command line built in

DOS isn't "dead", DOS is dead for the majority of computer users where it once was the standard. I believe AutoCAD will fall into this category eventually. With companies in my industry moving towards "Revit only" gives evidence to my assumption. But, that's only in my market, there will always be a need for a good 'ole "drawing" application.

I think we are seeing the shape of things to come with AutoDesk's new suite series. Just about every one of them still include Acad but this is to help the user migrate to the newer and better packages. Now when I was doing casework planning and design vanilla AutoCAD was our "bread and butter".

DOS isn't "dead", DOS is dead for the majority of computer users where it once was the standard. I believe AutoCAD will fall into this category eventually. With companies in my industry moving towards "Revit only" gives evidence to my assumption. But, that's only in my market, there will always be a need for a good 'ole "drawing" application.

 

I imagine manual hand drawing and 2d AutoCAD will be around forever. Why spend £3500-£5000 for a 3d CAD program or a BIM product like Revit if you only ever design small single storey extensions that take a few hours to draw up and there aren't any complicated services or structure?

We still have two chemical engineers that hand draft the sketches that go with their engineering change notices. I've been bugging them for years to go "CAD" but they refuse. At least the younger guys have readily adapted to CAD. Maybe because each had some exposure to it in college.

Of course I shouldn't talk about adapting newer technology. I still have a "land line" in addition to the cell phone I hardly ever use. LoL

I mean I love my CAD and if every computer in the world blew up I'd be in trouble as my hand drawing looks like they were done on an etch-a-sketch!

My manager always hand scribbles layouts and I have to CAD them up and make them work where they are 50mm shy, apparently not so much of a problem in the olden days when the builder would just sort it out on site.