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AutoLINE
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Comparison
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CAD w/o AutoLINE
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AutoLINE makes it easy to create and
modify new linetypes. With dialog box functionality all you do is point and
click. Creating shapes is easy too because AutoLINE will convert all your
blocks into shapes! |
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Creating linetypes with CAD is
difficult: you have to use a text editor and remember the exact syntax,
otherwise you get an error. Not only that, you have to create your own shapes.
That's difficult, even for a programmer! |
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AutoLINE has three options for text
and symbol rotation: A Real number, Aligned, or Adjusted. With Adjusted
rotation, text is rotated with the line but always faces down or to the right. |
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With CAD your options are to
have text rotated with the line or have it always rotated at the same angle.
This means that your text must all be at rotation 0 or else it would be drawn
upside down! How useful is that? |
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AutoLINE has the bugs worked out of
it. |
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This is a curious bug in CAD.
When arc segments of a polyline are drawn in a counter-clockwise direction the
shapes switch rotation 180 degrees. Kind of funny-looking isn't it? |
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With AutoLINE you may have a block,
positive dash, or negative dash (space) first in your linetype. Isn't that what
flexibility is all about? |
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CAD requires that a positive
length dash segment be the first item in a linetype definition. |
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AutoLINE supports unlimited parallel
lines as part of the linetype definition. |
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CAD supports no parallel lines.
With CAD you must use another command, MLINE, to draw parallel lines, and
unfortunetely, you can only draw straight line segments. |
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AutoLINE comes with 110 special
linetypes which are easy to modify. |
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CAD comes with 7 special (?)
linetypes which are difficult to modify and don't work very well. |
