Worldwide CAD Trend Report Released

One strongly growing sector is Pay As You Go CAD, the study states.

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By DE Editors

March 18, 2016

Business Advantage has released its annual report of worldwide CAD trends. The survey was completed by a pool of global professionals and covers 15 trends.

The report’s findings include:

Strongest growth potentials are in Pay As You Go, Cloud based CAD, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Mobile Access to CAD, Advanced real time Rendering and Visualization and 3D Printing.
3D Modeling is widely adopted but 2D Drafting remains important. Two thirds of users still rate 2D drafting highly important.
CAM software usage increased 37% in the last year. Almost 70% of those using or planning to use CAM think it’s important to have machining instructions automatically generated from 3D CAD models. Six in 10 of them also want to see more software development effort on CAD/CAM integration.

“Mapping the future growth trends of your market area is vital for the planning of any business. This annual CAD Trends survey of design, engineering and management professionals is designed to assist CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM and PLM users and software companies with their planning for 2016 and beyond. The report tracks key trends and opportunities in the CAD market and ranks their growth potential over the next 5 years,” says Chris Turner, CEO and managing director of Business Advantage.

For more information, visit Business Advantage.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.