Emotional Footprint Awards 2024
Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing
SoftwareReviews names SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD, and Dassault Systemes Catia as Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing Emotional Footprint Award Winners.
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Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing
Emotional Footprint Awards
SoftwareReviews Emotional Footprint Awards evaluate and rank products based on emotional response ratings from IT and business professionals. Using our Emotional Footprint methodology, we aggregate emotional footprint scores across 26 dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
Emotional Footprint Awards are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional “magical” components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.
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See how each vendor stacks up across each of the 26 dimensions and our thorough evaluation of vendor capabilities, product features, and overall satisfaction.
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Measuring Emotional Footprint
Emotional Footprint is scored using our “Net Emotional Footprint” Index. This index tracks responses across 26 dimensions of emotional footprint that span 5 categories: Purchasing, Service Experience, Product Impact, Vendor Strategy, and Conflict Resolution. Then, the following calculation is done across this index:
% of Positive Reviews - % of Negative Reviews
For clarity, the total percentage of positive, neutral, and negative ratings is shown for each vendor as well.
Emotional Footprint Leaders
Autodesk Inc
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.
9.1
CX Score
CX
Score
+92
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
86
Value Index
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227Reviews
Dassault Systemes
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.
9.0
CX Score
CX
Score
+93
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
85
Value Index
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87Reviews
Dassault Systemes
Dassault Systemes 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.
8.4
CX Score
CX
Score
+95
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
85
Value Index
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36Reviews
Other Evaluated Vendors
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.
8.3
CX Score
CX
Score
+97
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
86
Value Index
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31Reviews
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
CX Score
CX
Score
+87
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
81
Value Index
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63Reviews
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.
7.9
CX Score
CX
Score
+90
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
76
Value Index
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43Reviews
Robert McNeel & Associates
Rhino 8
Rhinoceros is a 3-D modeling software with thousands of modeling and editing tools including support for both large files and large teams. Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces and solids, subdivision geometry (SubD), point clouds, and polygon meshes. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of your hardware.
7.7
CX Score
CX
Score
+88
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
83
Value Index
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28Reviews
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.
7.7
CX Score
CX
Score
+90
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
80
Value Index
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30Reviews
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.
7.6
CX Score
CX
Score
+88
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
82
Value Index
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20Reviews
BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED
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.
7.5
CX Score
CX
Score
+82
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
85
Value Index
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25Reviews
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.
6.7
CX Score
CX
Score
+71
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
75
Value Index
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40Reviews
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