ACAD was the flagship product of Autodesk until a few years back. Today it contributes 30 to 40% of the company revenue, half of what it was. Growth in other software in the Product Design and Manufacturing industry, Building Information Management (BIM), and Visualization and Animation complements Autodesk offering in the Imagine, Design, Visualize, Make, Build, Maintain technology space...
One had to type ACAD to start AutoCAD and that is how ACAD became synonymous with AutoCAD during the DOS days before Windows
Also known as: Auto Computer Aided Design