AutoCAD

I have a lot of flexibility in terms of the mediums I can ease into and AutoCAD truly helps in that aspect. It delivers the workspace to bring a flat design to life in a way that most dimensional design products don’t. One thing for certain is the application’s versatility in making the space feel less technically tedious and more straightforward. The functionality is very simple and gives its user the chance to apply their personal preference into the art board without losing resolution and methodology.

My only note of interest would be the application’s need for dimensional guidance. While it provides a very nice approach to freeform, it lightly loses touch of having a snap to grid like essence about it more than a majority.

AutoCAD has a large library of tools and commands that are specifically designed for construction planning and coordination, making it easy to create detailed and complex plans. Also, AutoCAD is highly customizable, allowing users to create custom commands, shortcuts, and menus. This can help to streamline the planning and coordination process and improve productivity.

AutoCAD is hard to learn, particularly for beginners who may suffer to understand the large number of tools and commands. Also, you have to have a good PC specification when dealing with large plans or drawings.

It is an effective tool for the professional and student architecture, engineering and basic drawing, has extensive editing capabilities that allow the user an exact and optimal design, its interface is very pleasing to the eye and has multiple options to select the same command, allows printing in different scales and formats to suit the user

It is an oversized program, that is, it has a large number of little-known and unused commands, depending on the large number of designs made in the same file, this system creates obstacles in the system that do not allow its continuous use, at the risk of generating errors that close the program without previous saved

Set up with customized equipment databases, figure prefix databases, point groups, so you can automate a lot of the data at import. Loads of tools for all different kinds of drafting. Ability to create 3D DTM models. Ability to reference other drawings or files in the background for reference.

Learning curve - takes a while to learn what can be done and the best way to accomplish it. Prone to crashing and autosave is not always reliable. Database points and drawing points do not always play nicely with each other (try to overwrite etc.).