The AutoCAD workalike market in 2019

  AutoCAD is targeted by many workalike software vendors precisely because it is the most successful general 2D/3D CAD program of all time. With four, six, eight, twelve million users of the 35-year-old software, entrepreneurs figure that there has to be a certain percentage of users who want something that costs less, even if it does less. AutoCAD is priced about 3× more to license annually than it is to buy a typical workalike outright. AutoCAD became a target after Autodesk made the wrong people angry, ones who could afford the price tag it would cost to channel their fury