[Cad] CAD survey results

[Jennifer Jacobs]

This is interesting- thanks for sharing. Any idea if they collect
demographic info on the survey participants? Particularly with regards to
their degree/ profession?

Also, for what it's worth, Blender is also open source software.

-Jennifer

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Brett Graham <brettgraham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I follow a mainly CAM focused blog:
>
> http://blog.cnccookbook.com/
>
> that occasionally runs surveys of it's readers on CAD/CAM topics. Here
> is one of interest:
>
> http://blog.cnccookbook.com/2015/01/20/results-2015-cad-survey/
>
> It looks like Solidworks is the winner overall (22% market share). The
> only open source software I see is FreeCAD (2%).
>
> Zooming in on the 'free' software, blender, inkscape and meshlab all
> make an appearance.
>
> It sounds like FreeCAD uses OpenCASCADE. Does anyone know what blender
> uses?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Brett
>



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Jennifer Jacobs
Doctoral Candidate
Lifelong Kindergarten Group
MIT Media Lab
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