– Solidworks is holding on to its #1 spot, though it did drop from 25% to about 23%.

This chart gives our best estimate of overall market share without trying to segment the market. This is our best estimate of overall market share without trying to segment the market…

We’ll also do a little retrospective on what’s changed since we surveyed in 2013. Let’s drill down into each category and see how things look. – CAM: Another way to save money is to use the CAD that comes with many CAM packages. – Free: There’s always a market for Free, and these tools get better every year. – Mid: These packages are charged for but are typically not as expensive as the Pro packages. – Pro: These are the more expensive packages like Solidworks. There will still quite a few below 1% that got 1 or 2 votes, but they’re not statistically valid against the bigger numbers. – Mainstream/Overall: This is every package that got a 1% or better share. Just like our 2013 CAD Survey results, we’ve divided things into various segments: They’re still coming in briskly so, we’ll probably get many more, but I wanted to go ahead and do the analysis and get the numbers up. We got over 300 responses as I write this. The results are in for this year’s CAD survey.

Camworks 2015