(A bigger review of 2007 will be run in the next edition). While this may not prove to be that popular with traditional AutoCAD users, I have to say it’s damn cool from a pure technology perspective. AutoCAD 2007 really does bring in some big changes, especially in 3D functionality. It’s still the industry standard and king of the 2D CAD systems. The question is, have they managed to maintain it for this year’s batch of releases? AutoCAD 2007 and LT To date this seems to have worked well, with Autodesk claiming over 90% retention of subscription customers and I have been impressed with the quality and innovation that Autodesk’s development teams have demonstrated. The crux of this business model is that Autodesk delivers new features and functions every year, its customers see the value in what they are getting, hopefully use the new technology and don’t mind paying for next years subscription. That is, unless Autodesk comes up with a time limited upgrade offer. The issue here is that by staying on a release the cost of upgrade increases over time to a point where a whole new copy has to be bought as ‘obited’ versions of AutoCAD can not be upgraded. AutoCAD 2002 was retired last month and AutoCAD 2004 is next to go we are just waiting for a date of execution (typically this has been around January). The downside is that Autodesk is ‘obiting’ AutoCAD releases faster than it ever has done in the past. 3D is the main event of AutoCAD 2007 and the product has received some inspiration from 3D Studio Max, Viz and the popular conceptual design tool, Sketch-Up.
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