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CAD Software: An $8 Billion Market

By Dick Weisinger

The CAD software market is currently an $8 billion market with 5.15 million users, estimates Jon Peddie Research.  The market is expected to grow to $8.7 billion by 2017 at an annual growth rate of 4 percent.

By company, the market share breakdown is as follows:

  • AutoCAD – 29 percent
  • Dassault Systems – 22 percent
  • Siemens PLM Software – 11 percent
  • PTC – 9 percent
  • Bentley – 6 percent

 

Kathleen Maher, VP and editor-in-chief of JPR’s Tech Watch, said that “we are seeing the industry open up for new players and those new players are bringing new technologies with them. Most dramatically, of course, are the arrivals of Hexagon and Trimble, who are combining metrology with design and documentation to build location-aware CAD processes… It’s been tough to shoehorn traditional CAD approaches into complementary market like simulation, analysis, 3D printing, visualization, etc. These companies are tackling those kinds of problems.”

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One comment on “CAD Software: An $8 Billion Market
  1. It was a good information. As we can see Autodesk is ruling the CAD industry. As you foresee new players may bring novel things. Lets see.

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