<p>For over forty years, the Computer Aided Design (CAD) software market has seen good times. Those are expected to continue in the near future.</p><p>According to a report by Tech Navio, a research consultancy, the CAD industry is expected to grow at a rate of 8.6 percent over the next three years. This growth is expected to result in revenues of over $8.2 billion by 2016.</p><p>However, there has been a perceptible change in its contours in recent times.</p><p>The emergence of a community of makers, hardware startups, and personal technology products such as 3D printers, has democratized design. Instead of engineers, entrepreneurs and consumers are using free design and collaboration software to shape the next big thing. A New Democratic CAD Software</p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/rakeshsharma/2013/08/09/the-problems-with-reinventing-cad-software/">Keep reading...</a></p>