What good is this software?

[user24224]

There is absolutely no use for the software in creating working instructions!!!
I just spent three full days learning how to get around this to find out it is only useable for posting links to a viewer online… It does not put out a PDF file for offline use, It won’t put out image files either… What can you do with it?

NOTHING!

Unless you spend a lot of money… On top of this, it is barely capable as a professional documentation software even if you spend the money… I doesn’t even have the capability to EDIT PART NAMES!!! Basic editing tools just simply exist…

$2000 for a piece of documentation software that cannot even edit part names!!!

What a joke!!!

Not worth even trying to use… Not on any level… And it’s four YEARS OLD!!!

I guess the days of putting capable software out there are gone…

Two thumbs down

[Support]

Hello @user24224

We do not hide the fact that Cadasio creates interactive 3D presentations, in fact I think its fair to say its our selling point and is mentioned consistently throughout our website.

The free tier allows users to try Cadasio, but of course comes with limitations. You can trial the full Premium edition for 7 days, with no commitment and no payment taken at all. We find the freemium and trial approach is very suitable for people to explore the features of Cadasio and decide if we are a good solution for them.

You are just wrong about a couple of things:

Cadasio can save out a PDF and images.

Though its not usually necessary, as there are other approaches, users can change the display name of parts.

I can see you also logged a chat asking for help with the interface, so it sounds like you have struggled to really grasp Cadasio and its concepts, which is something I will feedback to the team. Whilst the vast majority of users find us very easy to get to grips with, we are always looking for ways to improve the user experience and to make onboarding as easy as possible.

As for the price, we are extremely competitively priced. If you compare us to similar software such as SolidWorks Composer, we not only match the capabilities of its most common use case, we also do more such as create interactive 3D presentations and PDFs, which it does not do, and we do it at a more cost effective price point.

The fact that we have been going for some time now (more than four years) and have a strong and growing user base would suggest that companies do indeed find Cadasio a useful addition to their business.

I am sorry you have not found Cadasio to be a suitable solution. Feel free to reach out to the support team if you have any specific suggestions or require help.

[user24224]

Well it’s like I suspected, your only interested in the commercial user, not the individual solo user… Yes I’ve used Solidworks Composer while it was an add-on within Solidworks, but since they upgraded to 2026, they have made it a standalone software itself… So therefore it’s not available to makers or individual hobbyists anymore…

Your software is in the same situation, the largest number of users out there desperately needing such a software is not in the corporate boardroom, but in the hobby rooms of tens of thousands of homes… Those that maybe only use it occasionally, (willing to pay for a limited capability release) but not having the technical abilities to do their documentation on the available software…

You could easily put a watermark on the PDF output for such a small user which would be quite acceptable for most…

With some work to make things easier for such a user Cadasio could become the Documentation software of choice, the best in the world…

Henry Ford became a billionaire by making autos for the common man…
Bill Gates & Paul Allen became two of the richest men on the planet by selling functional software that anyone could purchase it…

Your cutting yourself short by not making a program capable of being useful to those that need PDF documentation of their projects but don’t have a commercial need requirement…

SW Composer has a $4,000 price point, you have a $2,000 price point for the full version, both are out of range for those that need it the most… Your $850 price point is still out of reach of most makers/hobbyist’s especially since the software is still so limited… It can do some nice work, but it simply isn’t as efficient as it could be… (especially at those pricepoints)

I’m sorry, that is my honest review, I’m currently doing what I need the hard way… It’s a shame…

It could be the best available if a little more attention was paid to useability…

Thank you for the response…

Sincerely,

Elmer G Gilman

PS: this is what I’m producing…

It was on the IPMS tables last week in Ft Wayne, In. on display last week…