Interesting discussion I have missed!
Let me post my opinion as a long time AC and AutoCAD user. I have not "switched" from one application to the other - I just learned and used both at the university and using them both up to today. "Switching" brings old working habits into different environment, which is BAD. Like going to the tropics from Scandinavia and bringing woolen gloves instead of swimsuit.
Archislave,
- AC's offset works better than Autocad's. It needs fewer clicks and typing on keyboard to do the same.
- In AC offset is rarely used in a project, which is different from a coastline modelling.
- 90% of offset usage in Autocad is not for tracing a curve at a given distance, but simply for making temporary giudelines for placing other objects and then deleted. In AC there are much better ways to do this and REAL TEMPORARY GUIDELINES!
- Autocad cannot offset splines and ellipses. AC cannot offset splines.
- In AC you can offset ANY contour, made of lines and arcs, which are not a polyline! In Autocad you have to transform them into a polyline and then offset the contour. And making a polyline form a set of lines in Autocad is one of the worst-made and most stupid commands I've ever seen in any CAD application!
- In AC you can offset a closed contour just by clicking inside it! And offset fills too!
Finally:
Stop looking for the old commands in the new application
LEARN THE NEW ONES!
