This is my second annual “Top CAD Blogs” post. I changed things up a bit this year, in hopes that it’d make this post more straight forward.
In last year’s post I separated blogs into categories. In this year’s post I’ve lumped all the blogs together. I also eliminated blogs that were basically inactive or highly commercial.
Once again I ranked the top CAD blogs according to Alexa’s Global Traffic Rank. Alexa explains that their traffic rank is a measure of a site’s popularity. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and page views over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and page views is ranked #1.
And once again this year, the websites that qualified for consideration:
- Had an Alexa listing.
- Were websites that were structured primarily as a CAD blog.
Top CAD Blogs of 2012
I considered seventy (70) blogs, and listed them in table format below. The two charts that I’ve included display the top twenty five (25) blogs.
In tabular form, the Alexa Global Traffic Ranks are as follows:
| Top CAD Blogs | Alexa Global Traffic Rank |
|---|---|
| 1. autodesk.blogs.com | 350,835 |
| 2. blog.jtbworld.com | 579,254 |
| 3. through-the-interface.typepad.com | 647,649 |
| 4. labs.blogs.com | 681,674 |
| 5. worldcadaccess.typepad.com | 708,197 |
| 6. thebuildingcoder.typepad.com | 745,499 |
| 7. rcd.typepad.com | 759,999 |
| 8. cadsetterout.com | 877,488 |
| 9. deelip.com | 952,326 |
| 10. thecadgeek.com | 1,212,163 |
| revitclinic.typepad.com | 1,234,384 |
| opendesignproject.org | 1,383,778 |
| crackingthevault.typepad.com | 1,411,181 |
| jamiesjewels.typepad.com | 1,422,712 |
| beingcivil.typepad.com | 1,566,428 |
| blog.cadnauseam.com | 1,599,078 |
| caddmanager.com/CMB | 1,640,432 |
| designandmotion.net | 1,671,684 |
| lynn.blogs.com | 1,708,548 |
| cadpanacea.com | 1,712,400 |
| dwf.blogs.com | 1,791,482 |
| geospatial.blogs.com | 2,227,362 |
| mayastation.typepad.com | 2,228,821 |
| heidihewett.blogs.com | 2,322,694 |
| ltunlimited.typepad.com | 2,358,921 |
| withoutanet.typepad.com | 2,575,982 |
| cadinsider.typepad.com | 2,579,915 |
| autodeskmfg.typepad.com | 2,759,233 |
| whatamesh.typepad.com | 2,864,099 |
| geospatialfrance.typepad.com | 2,889,052 |
| cadblog.info | 2,926,772 |
| inside-the-system.typepad.com | 2,987,378 |
| bimandbeam.typepad.com | 3,183,156 |
| dux.typepad.com | 4,137,238 |
| modthemachine.typepad.com | 4,312,379 |
| inventor-ru.typepad.com | 4,810,518 |
| bimontherocks.typepad.com | 4,992,878 |
| otb.manusoft.com | 5,104,340 |
| justonesandzeros.typepad.com | 5,181,699 |
| bimblog.typepad.com | 5,399,680 |
| engineeringeducation.typepad.com | 5,461,390 |
| underthehood-autodesk.typepad.com | 6,149,661 |
| kungfudrafter.com | 6,281,726 |
| themadcadder.blogs.com | 7,212,425 |
| in-the-pipes.typepad.com | 7,443,853 |
| hyperpics.blogs.com | 7,644,506 |
| cadshack.blogspot.com | 7,753,412 |
| mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com | 10,414,145 |
| familyjewels.typepad.com | 10,705,649 |
| bimapps.typepad.com | 11,551,726 |
| doddsandends.typepad.com | 12,049,561 |
| geospatialnavigator.typepad.com | 12,560,593 |
| lazydrafter.blogspot.com | 12,894,132 |
| cadtoolbox.com | 12,958,705 |
| cad-a-blog.com | 13,487,399 |
| ellipsis-autodesk.typepad.com | 13,721,200 |
| inthemachine-autodesk.typepad.com | 13,759,599 |
| adt_blog.typepad.com | 14,405,511 |
| civilfrance.typepad.com | 14,779,962 |
| revit-pl.typepad.com | 17,053,431 |
| fromthegroundup.typepad.com | 18,347,623 |
| caddhelp.blogspot.com | 20,662,143 |
| atlandsend.typepad.com | 22,232,064 |
| insidethefactory.typepad.com | 24,805,580 |
| classroomconnection.typepad.com | 25,180,917 |
| cadnotes.com | no data |
| gisexchange.typepad.com | no data |
| cadngis.blogspot.com | no data |
| cad-botequim.typepad.com | no data |
| structurebim.typepad.com | no data |
The 2012 top CAD blog was Shaan Hurley’s blog https://autodesk.blogs.com/. Congrats Shaan!!
Also, second and third place respectively go to Jimmy Bergmark’s blog https://blog.jtbworld.com/ and Kean Walmsley’s blog https://through-the-interface.typepad.com/. Congrats Jimmy and Kean!!
Conclusion
That’s it for 2012!
If I’ve missed your website, then my apologies! Please leave your site in the comments below, and I’ll include it the next time around.
I’d like to include more BIM, Inventor, and Revit blogs next time around too.