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A new report from our friends at Jon Peddie research indicates that after four years of limited growth, the CAD business is growing again hitting $8 billion dollars in sales in 2014.  Jon Peddie Research estimates the CAD software market to be an $8 billion market with 5.15 million annual users. We expect the market to grow to $8.7 billion in 2017 at a CAGR of 4%.

In JPR’s market share breakdown, Autodesk leads the pack at 29%. The rest of the pie is divided by Dassault Systemes (22%), Siemens PLM Software (11%), and PTC (9%).

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