Data Quadrant Awards 2024

Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing

SoftwareReviews names SOLIDWORKS and AutoCAD as Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing

Data Quadrant

Data Quadrants are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional "magical" components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.

The SoftwareReviews Data Quadrant evaluates and ranks products based on feedback from IT and business professionals. The placement of a software in the Data Quadrant indicates its relative ranking as well as its categorization.

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vendor capability comparisons
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business value scores
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individual feature evaluations
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emotional connection to products

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Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing Data Quadrant

Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

81Reviews

Dassault Systemes

SOLIDWORKS

Our powerful, yet easy-to-use solutions help drive innovation while covering all aspects of your product development process, regardless of the size of your business, industry, or preferred platform.

8.9

Composite
Score

+95

Emotional
Footprint

89%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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212Reviews

Autodesk Inc

AutoCAD

AutoCAD® is computer-aided design (CAD) software that architects, engineers, and construction professionals rely on to create precise 2D and 3D drawings.

8.7

Composite
Score

+92

Emotional
Footprint

87%

Likeliness to
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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

AutoCAD

Breadth of Features

CorelDRAW

Business Value Created

CorelDRAW

Ease of Customization

Bentley MicroStation

Ease of Data Integration

Bentley MicroStation

Ease of IT Administration

Bentley MicroStation

Ease of Implementation

Trimble SketchUp Pro

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

AVEVA Engineering

Quality of Features

Rhino 8

Usability and Intuitiveness

Bentley MicroStation

Vendor Support

Rhino 8

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

AutoCAD

Breadth of Features

CorelDRAW

Business Value Created

CorelDRAW

Ease of Customization

Bentley MicroStation

Ease of Data Integration

Bentley MicroStation

Ease of IT Administration

Bentley MicroStation

Ease of Implementation

Trimble SketchUp Pro

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

AVEVA Engineering

Quality of Features

Rhino 8

Usability and Intuitiveness

Bentley MicroStation

Vendor Support

Rhino 8

Other Evaluated Vendors

74Reviews

Alludo

CorelDRAW

Corel Corporation is a Canadian software company specializing in software for graphics processing.

8.2

Composite
Score

+92

Emotional
Footprint

86%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

35Reviews

Dassault Systemes

Dassault Systemes Catia

Best in class product development software applications, delivered on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, enabling 3D Design, Engineering, 3D CAD, Modeling, Simulation, Data Management and Process Management.

8.2

Composite
Score

+95

Emotional
Footprint

89%

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31Reviews

AVEVA

AVEVA Engineering

AVEVA is a leader in engineering design and information management software solutions for the plant, power and marine industries. For almost 50 years it has delivered business critical software solutions to owner operators, engineering contractors and shipbuilders around the world.

8.1

Composite
Score

+97

Emotional
Footprint

85%

Likeliness to
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61Reviews

Trimble Navigation Limited

Trimble SketchUp Pro

SketchUp is useful from the earliest stages of design to the end of construction. Programming, diagramming, design development, detailing, documentation, RFIs—wherever you need drawings, you need SketchUp Pro.

8.0

Composite
Score

+86

Emotional
Footprint

86%

Likeliness to
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22Reviews

BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED

Bentley MicroStation

Mitigate the risk of building in a utility-congested underground environment with Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE). The software’s 3D modeling capabilities allow you to automatically create 3D models from survey information, CAD artifacts, GIS, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and more. Bentley SUE maintains a relationship between CAD and GIS utility source and target civil features to help you ensure that data is always synced and up to date.

7.7

Composite
Score

+91

Emotional
Footprint

86%

Likeliness to
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29Reviews

ANSYS

Ansys SpaceClaim

SpaceClaim Engineer is a 3D Direct Modeling software which allows engineers to work with CAD data from any source, regardless of origin. SpaceClaim is used in a number of applications including concept modeling, bid modeling, 2D to 3D transition, manufacturing, reverse engineering, sheet metal manufacturing and model prep.

7.7

Composite
Score

+89

Emotional
Footprint

82%

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43Reviews

PTC

Creo

Creo is the 3D CAD solution that helps you accelerate product innovation to build better products faster. Easy to learn, Creo uses a model-based approach to seamlessly take you from the earliest phases of product design to manufacturing, and beyond. Creo combines powerful, proven functionality with new technologies, including generative design, real-time simulation, advanced manufacturing, IIoT, and augmented reality.

7.6

Composite
Score

+89

Emotional
Footprint

83%

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27Reviews

Robert McNeel & Associates

Rhino 8

Rhinoceros is a 3-D modeling software with thousands of modeling and editing tools including support for both large files and large teams.

7.5

Composite
Score

+87

Emotional
Footprint

82%

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19Reviews

Hexagon PPM

CADWorx Structure

CADWorx and analysis solutions work together to give you the power to tackle the most challenging and complex projects with greater ease and with superior results that were never before achievable. Our plant design and analysis offerings are easy to use, extremely flexible, totally scalable and are trusted by over 80% of the leading plant engineering companies and owner operators worldwide to deliver accurate, reliable results.

7.3

Composite
Score

+87

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
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to Recommend

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40Reviews

IMSI/Design, LLC.

TurboCAD

TurboCAD Pro Platinum is a professional 2D/3D CAD application that offers a great collection of 2D/3D design tools to design, modify, present, and document in an integrated fashion. An optional AutoCAD®-like 2D drafting interface with command line and dynamic input cursor helps professionals already familiar with AutoCAD easily get up to speed.

6.7

Composite
Score

+69

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.