Q1   Will this be a disadvantage with a widescreen monitor?  Will my CAD applications draw squashed circles or can I set them up to maintain the correct ratios?

No Pixels will still be square and things will get rendered with the correct aspect ratio.  The exception would be if you ran the screen out of its native resolution.  If rendering circles is really important you'll be able to render a bigger one in a 4:3 ratio screen (because they fit better)
Q2   Will I lose room heightwise and hence have to reduce the vertical picture size?
 
Q3   I will probably gain (spare) space horizontally but is this going to be distracting or can it be put to use by better arranging the desktop, or even allowing room to put an application's menus and toolbars?
I've got a wide screen laptop (17") and don't find that too wide.  Perhaps at 19" or 30" this may be an issue.  Something worthy of note is that a 17" widescreen as a fair bit less screen than a 17" 4:3 aspect ratio screen - if they were the same price I'd go for the 4:3 screen.

Q4   I have a considerable investment in CAD applications which I don't want to have to replace for the sake of a new monitor so should I go for it.
That really depends on the CAD applications which I don't know anything about, however if they are standard windows applications you probably wont have a problem


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