Why my CADD is better than AuoCAD

This started in a thread in the annotation forum and someone suggested this topic, so as one who likes trowing rocks at bee hives, I took up the baton and am going to kick this off.

  • Can you reference the paperspace into another paperspace or a model?
  • Can you reference a file to itself?
  • Can you create multiple models in a single file?
  • Can you display linetypes on 3D polylines?
  • Can you create linetypes that represent real world objects and do not scale with Annotation scale?

Later, after others have added to this list, I will post AutoCAD features that I like that MicroStation does not offer...

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  • Bingo! I just thought about this issue. This week, I was swamped with production work. But our AutoCAD license server kept turning itself off, and then, one of the guys from one of our other offices was platooned to our office for an AutoCAD project. So on three different days, he was on three different PC's. So on day 1, I had to run my special programs to configure Civil 3D to see our customizations. Had he been working in MicroStation, he would have simply launched from the standard icon.

    Day 2 he gets moved to a new PC. Repeat process. Day 3 new PC - but deadlines were at this point at critical mass - so he was forced to work with OTB software.


    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
  • AutoCAD is an absolute beast. The "slowness" is an absolute production killer (I cringe when people use the word Production in this business, as we're not exactly standing at work stations in a factory pumping out X number of units per hour, but that's another topic). I can't count how many times I sat there 'til 9:00 PM watching that blue circle spinning. It can easily take 3 or 4 times as long to do something in AutoCAD as it does Microstation. Heck, even worse sometimes. And don't even get me started on the Crashing...

    Can't beat AutoCAD's key-ins though, huh?

    (-:

  • Just to note that many AutoCad keyin commands can be used in the MicroStation keyin dialog just by typing in DWG before the command.

    eg. DWG CIRCLE starts up the Place Circle tool in MicroStation

    docs.bentley.com/.../ustnhelp1075.html

    Regards
    Andrew Bell
    Technical Support
    Bentley Systems

  • Mstn also has keyins both new and old ones ..and the old ones still work especially the ones on page 3 place xxx

    to make them work in v8i you need to keyin p, then the command eg place a 50 mu  circle by radius 

    the keyin is P,PCIRR;50

    the first P is for primative (I think)  the , p for place, cir for circle , r for by radius , and ;50 is what value radius

    take a look at the pdf page for more place  commands these also work very well in F keys or waiting for values  by using the unterminated  commands 

    see action strings in help file

    There are also more keyins in the latest version see help but they are very long  you can add custom short keys to accudraw too...

    But I dont bother much nowdays as the icons are so quick  where as in old days graphics slowed the pc down alot...

    also  look inside mstn for search  ?menu*.dgn  with explorer  there is the old ver 5  one which has the keyins for the old digitiser tablet and a lot of these still work like place circle tangent to 3 points  if pasted into Fkeys menu

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

    But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE  update 16 (10.16.00.80) 

    MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.
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  • Mstn also has keyins both new and old ones ..and the old ones still work especially the ones on page 3 place xxx

    to make them work in v8i you need to keyin p, then the command eg place a 50 mu  circle by radius 

    the keyin is P,PCIRR;50

    the first P is for primative (I think)  the , p for place, cir for circle , r for by radius , and ;50 is what value radius

    take a look at the pdf page for more place  commands these also work very well in F keys or waiting for values  by using the unterminated  commands 

    see action strings in help file

    There are also more keyins in the latest version see help but they are very long  you can add custom short keys to accudraw too...

    But I dont bother much nowdays as the icons are so quick  where as in old days graphics slowed the pc down alot...

    also  look inside mstn for search  ?menu*.dgn  with explorer  there is the old ver 5  one which has the keyins for the old digitiser tablet and a lot of these still work like place circle tangent to 3 points  if pasted into Fkeys menu

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

    But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE  update 16 (10.16.00.80) 

    MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.
    click link to PM me 

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