CAD anyone?

[Grape Jelly]

Does anyone here user a Surface for any kind of CAD work? I know someone looking into purchasing a Surface who can't decide. He's leaning toward a MacBook. Basically the Surface does everything he needs. However, he does a lot of CAD engineering designs and is concerned there is no app for that on RT and that the Pro would not be a good choice. My simple thinking is the Pro would be superior given the pen and portability, but then I'm not familiar with the software side.

 

[ArnoldC]

What kind of CAD work?

CorelCAD is available for Desktop (and dozen others), RapidCAD, Back to the Drawing Board, iCircuit, Grapholite are available for Modern UI.

 

[Wayne Orwig]

I've used Visual Cadd for many years. It is running fine on my Surface Pro. It actually works better with a mouse though.
I installed and played a little with my pc board layout package. It also works well.
I suspect you would have trouble finding programs optimized for the pen. But they still work well with a mouse.

 

[Grape Jelly]

Thank you. The work he is doing is creating design models for manufacture.

I'll give these a try.