How was your 2014? Cadalyst had an awesome one! Lots of articles and posts got tons of attention from readers. CAD is a busy industry, with frequent changes and hurdles to overcome. Fortunately, a lot of progress was made over the past year, and plenty more is expected in the year to come. Here are some of your favorite CAD related blog posts from 2014.

Topics: Workstations, CAD

The CAD industry has grown a lot since 2008, and Oleg Shilovitsky has grown right alongside it.

Topics: Workstations, CAD workstations, CAD

Autodesk Revit is a powerful design suite specifically created to take advantage of Building Information Modeling (BIM), a new way of documenting projects with revolutionary implications in several industries.

Topics: Workstations, CAD workstations, CAD

If you need an example for how CAD has revolutionized industrial production, look under your hood, says Zaia Abraham, president of PROCAD.

Topics: Workstations, Hardware, Hard Drive, CAD

We asked Chris McAndrew what innovations he's most excited about today in the world of CAD.

Topics: Workstations, Printers, 3D, CAD workstations, CAD

People say that the best way to learn something is to teach somebody else. In the process of describing it, you break the subject down into its components andu begin to see the limits of your own understanding.

Topics: Workstations, 3D, CAD

Software is not something you simply learn once and move on.

Topics: Workstations, Operating Systems, CAD

While it might not be the most exciting development in the CAD world, Scott Sweeney says Reuse is the most important.

Topics: Workstations, Hard Drive, AutoCAD, Processors, CAD

Solidworks 2015 has been out since September 2014, and the jury is in: developers managed to please users with a host of new features and improvements that make complicated tasks simple, fast, and more productive. The company was vocal about these "user driven" changes, and bloggers who have tried and reviewed the product are overwhelmingly positive about it. Here are the top changes for Solidworks 2015, but bear in mind, the changes and improvements are numerous and some are profound. Be sure to browse through the product guide so you'll be able to take advantage of all those new bells and whistles.

Topics: Workstations, SolidWorks, CAD

Jimmy Bergmark of JTB World has decades of experience in the AutoCAD industry. That's why he started his own business to help fellow CAD users.

Topics: Workstations, AutoCAD, Connectivity, CAD