{"id":5515,"date":"2015-07-20T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2015-06-05T07:18:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:18:13","slug":"cad-software-an-8-billion-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cad-software-an-8-billion-market\/","title":{"rendered":"CAD Software: An $8 Billion Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonpeddie.com\/publications\/cad_report\/\" target=\"_blank\">The CAD software market<\/a> is currently an $8 billion market with 5.15 million users, estimates Jon Peddie Research. \u00a0The market is expected to grow to $8.7 billion by 2017 at an annual growth rate of 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>By company, the market share breakdown is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AutoCAD &#8211;\u00a029 percent<\/li>\n<li>Dassault Systems &#8211;\u00a022 percent<\/li>\n<li>Siemens PLM Software &#8211;\u00a011 percent<\/li>\n<li>PTC &#8211;\u00a09 percent<\/li>\n<li>Bentley &#8211;\u00a06 percent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonpeddie.com\/about\">Kathleen Maher<\/a>, VP and editor-in-chief of JPR\u2019s Tech Watch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deskeng.com\/virtual_desktop\/?p=10383\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a> &#8220;we are seeing the industry open up for new players and those new players are bringing new technologies with them. 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