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Stay away from AutoCAD if you can help it
June 09, 2019

Stay away from AutoCAD if you can help it

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with AutoCAD

AutoCAD is the basic program used to create blueprints for designs.
  • Clean, crisp sheets.
  • The "basic" command line is a little cumbersome to get used to, but then very handy.
  • Plotting. First of all, it's printing. Everything is cumbersome about this. From the many dozen of sheet sizes, scrolling to find your sheet size, the 10-12 steps you need to do to print, er, plot. It's absolutely insane.
  • The MANY, MANY errors. Not copying all the elements of objects you copy--often just leaves out bits and pieces of your drawing. Very difficult to draw curves.
  • Errors. All the time there are errors. The latest seems to be the license times out. Then, contacting help is impossible. You often need to book a call a day in advance meaning an entire lost day of productivity.
  • It is useful, very useful, to create blueprint sheets, but so unreliable and cumbersome to use. It is never a good day when one must use it.
The only reason I use it is that it was taught as the industry standard in school. It's been unpleasant since day one.
I would urge people to stay far away. Learn Rhino or any other program that can create blueprints. AutoCAD software is clunky, old-fashioned and out of step with almost all other software. I wish Adobe would buy it and really shake out the cobwebs. It is truly the most frustrating software I've ever encountered and countless hours are wasted trying to manage ways around its foibles.