Solid Digital Digest is an ezine for SolidWorks users. Its editors regularly poll readers. Recently, 530 readers responded to these questions:
"Do you work in a multi-CAD environment?"
"If so, which CAD product do you primarily use in addition to SolidWorks?"
22% used SolidWorks only.The majority worked with another CAD package:
38% AutoCAD
18% Alibre
3% Pro/Engineer
2% Unigraphics
2% CATIA
1% Inventor
1% Mechanical Desktop
1% CoCreate
12% Other
(The survey is representative only of that small proportion, 0.2%, of SolidWorks users who responded to the survey.)
Still, it is interesting that the results suggest more work with AutoCAD than with SolidWorks alone -- probably AutoCAD as a 2D drafter or source of base drawings.
The small number of similar products is less a surprise, because these do what SolidWorks already does.
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