Knowing the Pros and Cons of AutoCAD

AutoCAD is a CAD program released by Autodesk, an American design software company. CAD stands for Computer Aided Design is a program for designing or drawing techniques using a computer with the aim of producing a design output that has a high degree of accuracy and is designed in a short time.

One of the CAD software that is most widely used by companies and individuals both in the fields of architecture, mechanical engineering and other engineering fields is AutoCAD. AutoCAD is a general program that offers a variety of facilities for drawing, both 2 and 3 dimensional. All disadvantages of drawing techniques manually can be overcome with AutoCAD. Some of the advantages and disadvantages of AutoCAD in drawing techniques include:

Pros of AutoCAD

Usage Documentation

The documentation for using AutoCAD, both tutorials and tips and tricks, and so on, is plentiful and easy to find. For beginners who are first time using AutoCAD, such documentation is very helpful in learning how to operate the AutoCAD design application so that they will quickly become proficient in mastering how to use it.

Fast and Efficient Depiction

Drawing and editing in AutoCAD is very fast and effective because of the many commands and features that are provided. You don't need to be afraid whether you draw a mistake because it will definitely be easy to fix it and adjust the image according to client requests.

Flexibility and Practicality

Design with AutoCAD is most flexible and practical because images can be printed several times with different drawing scales according to client requests without having to redraw so you won't be bothered with every changing client request.

In addition, you can also determine whether the resulting picture is in the form of other files such as PDF, image and so on and also as promotional media, presentation media and work images to be submitted to project workers to work on.

The resulting image has good precision or accuracy because it has a precision level of 13 digits. The image will definitely have very accurate fidelity

Unlimited Wide Scope of Work

Drawing a home design for a work project in AutoCAD, you don't need to worry about the size of the drawing you make because AutoCAD has an unlimited working drawing area. You want to draw projects at the scale of buildings, neighbourhoods, cities and countries you can do in AutoCAD

Usage Compatibility

The AutoCAD program can be opened and linked with other programs such as Sketchup, ArchiCAD and so on so it is very good when working on a project that is done with other people who do not use this software.

While AutoCAD is generally good, it does have its drawbacks. Here are the shortcomings of AutoCAD which in my opinion is a factor or obstacle for those of you, especially those who are just about to decide to use it

Disadvantages of AutoCAD

Expensive Price

Yes. This application or software is quite expensive to use. Monthly subscription fee of around $ 180 or around Rp. 2 million and annually around $ 1,470 or around Rp. 15 million

For students there is indeed a student variant that is free but of course there is a reduction in specifications and features and also a maximum limit of 3 years of use so you cannot use it to the fullest

If you think the free version is enough, then you can read how to get free AutoCAD for students and educators who teach AutoCAD, and this is the official version of the software.

High Hardware Requirements

Using AutoCAD requires qualified laptop or computer specifications. If we refer to the accepted computer specifications for running AutoCAD, the recommended specifications are quite high and of course quite expensive to buy.

Maybe that's the advantages and disadvantages of AutoCAD that I can describe based on my experience in using this software. Hopefully this can be your consideration in choosing whether you use this AutoCAD design application or not.