Data Quadrant Awards 2025
Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing
SoftwareReviews names SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD, CATIA, and Trimble SketchUp Pro as Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing Data Quadrant Award Winners.
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Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing
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Gold Medalists
Dassault Systems
SOLIDWORKS
SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio unite your entire ecosystem, allowing you to connect the people, applications, and real-time data from every aspect of your business for improved productivity, increased collaboration, and accelerated innovation. Adding DELMIAWorks Manufacturing ERP provides added visibility specifically for your factory’s environment.
8.8
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+93
Emotional
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88%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
Autodesk
AutoCAD
AutoCAD is computer-aided design (CAD) software that is used for precise 2D and 3D drafting, design, and modeling with solids, surfaces, mesh objects, documentation features, and more. It includes features to automate tasks and increase productivity such as comparing drawings, counting, adding objects, and creating tables. It also comes with seven industry-specific toolsets for electrical design, plant design, architecture layout drawings, mechanical design, 3D mapping, adding scanned images, and converting raster images. AutoCAD enables users to create, edit, and annotate drawings via desktop, web, and mobile devices.
8.7
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Composite
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+92
Emotional
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Emotional
Footprint
89%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
Dassault Systems
CATIA
Best in class product development software applications, delivered on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, enabling 3D Design, Engineering, 3D CAD, Modeling, Simulation, Data Management and Process Management.
8.5
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+95
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
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89%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
Trimble Navigation Limited
Trimble SketchUp Pro
SketchUp is a premier 3D design software that truly makes 3D modeling for everyone, with a simple to learn yet robust toolset that empowers you to create whatever you can imagine. SketchUp is useful from the earliest stages of design to the end of construction. Programming, diagramming, design development, detailing, documentation, RFIs—wherever you need drawings, you need SketchUp Pro.
8.0
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Composite
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+88
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
Vendor Capability Awards
Vendor Capability Awards
Other Evaluated Vendors
PTC
Creo
Creo is the 3D CAD solution that helps you accelerate product innovation to build better products faster. Easy to learn, Creo uses a model-based approach to seamlessly take you from the earliest phases of product design to manufacturing, and beyond. Creo combines powerful, proven functionality with new technologies, including generative design, real-time simulation, advanced manufacturing, IIoT, and augmented reality.
7.8
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
AVEVA
AVEVA Engineering
AVEVA is a leader in engineering design and information management software solutions for the plant, power and marine industries. AVEVA Engineering enables multi-discipline teams of engineers to work effectively together to develop and maintain the detailed definition of all the key engineering items involved in plant or marine projects. AVEVA Engineering is highly versatile and configurable. It is typically used as an authoring tool for the process and mechanical disciplines, but is equally well suited for pipe stress, safety or other specialist disciplines.
7.8
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+96
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
84%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
ANSYS
Ansys SpaceClaim
SpaceClaim Engineer is a 3D Direct Modeling software which allows engineers to work with CAD data from any source, regardless of origin. SpaceClaim is used in a number of applications including concept modeling, bid modeling, 2D to 3D transition, manufacturing, reverse engineering, sheet metal manufacturing and model prep.
7.6
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
83%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
Autodesk
Autodesk Fusion
Autodesk Fusion is the end-to-end design and manufacturing solution for your business, enabling engineers, designers, and machinists to modernize their product development with tailored workflows and capabilities.
7.6
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+81
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
86%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
Hexagon PPM
CADWorx Structure
CADWorx and analysis solutions work together to give you the power to tackle the most challenging and complex projects with greater ease and with superior results that were never before achievable. Our plant design and analysis offerings are easy to use, extremely flexible, totally scalable and are trusted by over 80% of the leading plant engineering companies and owner operators worldwide to deliver accurate, reliable results.
7.4
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+88
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
Bentley Systems
Bentley MicroStation
Mitigate the risk of building in a utility-congested underground environment with Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE). The software’s 3D modeling capabilities allow you to automatically create 3D models from survey information, CAD artifacts, GIS, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and more. Bentley SUE maintains a relationship between CAD and GIS utility source and target civil features to help you ensure that data is always synced and up to date.
7.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+83
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
81%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
IMSI Design
TurboCAD
TurboCAD Pro Platinum is a professional 2D/3D CAD application that offers a great collection of 2D/3D design tools to design, modify, present, and document in an integrated fashion. An optional AutoCAD®-like 2D drafting interface with command line and dynamic input cursor helps professionals already familiar with AutoCAD easily get up to speed.
6.9
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+73
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
81%
Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend
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