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It's a couple of years out of date, but see this:

SolidWorks has >2x the share of any other player.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-market-share-of-each-major...

Back when I was doing CAD work professionaly it was by far the most encountered software. Others have footholds in some industrys (aerospace, automotive) but for "general" product design SW is king.




That Quora post is a wrapper around CNCCookBook's 2015 survey [0], which is quite old.

They've done followup surveys [1], the most recent of which was in 2018 [2].

The latest survey shows that Fusion360 is now the most popular package and grew quite rapidly since 2015.

FWIW, Fusion360 is also the most popular CAM package [3].

[0]: https://www.cnccookbook.com/results-2015-cad-survey/

[1]: https://www.cnccookbook.com/cnc-manufacturing-trends-surveys...

[2]: https://www.cnccookbook.com/cnccookbook-2018-cad-survey-resu...

[3]: https://www.cnccookbook.com/cnccookbook-2020-cam-survey-what...


> SolidWorks has >2x the share of any other player.

That's a disingenuous way to interpret that data. Just 23% market share is pretty far from being an industry standard.


How is it disingenuous? 22.6 / 9.2 = 2.45




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