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AutoCAD: Nobody does better, but too many bugs!
March 05, 2020

AutoCAD: Nobody does better, but too many bugs!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AutoCAD

We use it to design yacht interiors, furniture designs, architectural drawings in general. It works, but has too many crashes.

  • Layers management
  • Dimensions and annotations
  • Layout
  • The hatches have always worked badly, there is no tolerance on the closures, everything must be perfect.
  • If you attack more than 10 Xref, everything becomes too slow, unmanageable.
  • The printing of many layouts, even in the background, is a nightmare. It's too slow, even with very powerful machines, in the AutoCAD engine it can be seen that it does not use the CPU.
  • There is no command to block the insertion of objects on zeta equal to 0, or an automatic command that brings an entire design and all its entities to z = 0. Other programs such as Rhinoceros, Microstatio, do have this.
  • The management of the scale of the hatches between layout and model is not simple. Most users with experience cannot use it.
  • The transition from model to layout is incredibly slow even on €8000 workstations, just like on a € 500 machine.
  • Many functions, rewrites in OS X work much better than in Windows.
  • AutoCAD, in any case, is fast, so it helps us to reach our goal.
AutoCAD support staff are very competent, but support is too bureaucratic, too complicated. They need something easier, leaner. For a small problem, sometimes you lose hours, and in the end, you'd prefer not to ask for support.

Do you think AutoCAD delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AutoCAD's feature set?

No

Did AutoCAD live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of AutoCAD go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AutoCAD again?

Yes

AutoCAD is well suited for designs with few Xref and is not too heavy. Well suited for designs that do not have entities imported from other programs, such as Rhinoceros. Spline management is too limited. It's ideal for simple designs, not too complicated and without complex hatches.