Last time I checked, blender didn’t do solid modeling or understand tolerances - has this changed? Can it really be used for industrial design, or is it really just a competitor to the animation software that autodesk makes?
I'm not in the industrial design field so I'll point out that Blender is also a competitor to Autodesk's offerings in VFX, game design, and 2D painting/animation.
No and I don't think it will, I was referring to modelling for the product of movies/games.