A few comments....
Solidworks is my favourite...pricey, but you get what you pay for and not too expensive when you are using it for business. I have the premium package
which I am about to upgrade to 2013 release...original cost was around $7000..
<<< this was designed in SW2008
Autocad...definitely has it's uses, but as said above Draftsight does pretty much all AutoCad does but for nothing.....
Inventor very similar in price to Solidworks, but behind in features and functionality...I use INV 2013 every day in my day job, but it lacks many
capabilities that SW 2008 has....
Inventor lite.....can't do assemblies so it's borderline useless IMO
I agree about Catia and ProE and them being used at big companies, but Solidworks is being used more and more by bigger companies too.
Rhino....brilliant surface modelling tool, not CAD per se as we would define it
Sketch up..again not really CAD at all by any stretch of the imagination, but being free (I think) counts for something.
All IMO of course.....
[Edited on 15/11/12 by Alan B]
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