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I have been using AutoCAD since 1995 and it is so easy to use. I would recommend taking a course in it first.

I love AutoCAD. It's easy to use and I'm hooked on it! When I'm not working on a project I like to play around on it to see what else I can find to use that I haven't before.

Great product! Easy to use

Wouldn't exactly call it easy to use but... it's the best and accurate as vectorial software comes, both for 2d and 3d.
Take a crash course to get used to it. Then take your years till you get operational.
Before you know it, you'll never want another one.

Hard to learn at first but easy to use later.

This is the software, where all the 3D modeling and vector-line CAD blueprint drawing began. I took the class for it, when AutoCAD 10 first rolled out in 1983. I've used it, in it's AutoCAD 2000 version, too. A great program! These days, I also use Lightwave 3D, 3D Studio MAX, and MAYA 2009.

I finished my AutoCAD class in the spring and absolutely hated it. Yeah, its hard to learn at first, but the interface could have been designed sooooo much better. I hate that I either have to search though all the toolbars and ribbons (in AutoCAD 2009) or type in the command that I want to use. Then on top of that I have to change other options within the tool to do what I want it do. But I had to know what all the names meant first. Chamfer? Why can't it just be rounded corners. Plus, I've heard that Autodesk is refusing to make a version for Macs. Why? Who knows, when plenty of mac users would prefer to have it for OS X instead of having to run Bootcamp and aren't more and more people making the switch to Macs? I still respect you PC users!!!!. Yes, I'll agree its a valuable tool for Architects and other designers alike but there seriously has to be an easier way to draw floorplans. Also, why is it that I have to do all this other stuff to get it to print. I have to set up everything in page setup and if you don't do it right it won't print right. It's not very fun in the middle of finals. Either way, in the Department of Architecture that I currently am in (SCAD) it's all moving to Autodesk's new software called Revit which prefers building information modeling (BIM) then conventional AutoCAD. I'd rather shoot myself.