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Originally Posted by Andy A.
If an engineering company that produces or deals with three dimensional objects is using AutoCAD to the exclusion of a 3d parametric software package, like Inventor or Solidworks, it isn't because AutoCAD is better.
It's because the company is made up of people who don't know how and don't want to learn how, to use Inventor or it's contemporaries. AutoCAD has a lot of institutional momentum behind it, but that doesn't mean that it is better. It's just all some companies know.
-Andy A.
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No criticism of your views intended, but there are some pretty good engineering companies which use AutoCAD primarily, with good results. I know some designers who can positively rip in 2D and have been for years (which is the key).
That said, people from one such company were at a project meeting where I presented an Inventor-created presentation of a mechanism's operation and I saw them exchanging raised-eyebrow looks. They are installing Inventor at their company now.