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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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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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AutoLINE has the bugs worked out.
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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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AutoLINE supports unlimited parallel lines as part of the linetype definition.
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AutoLINE comes with 110 special linetypes which are easy to modify.
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AutoCAD
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Creating linetypes with AutoCAD 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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With AutoCAD 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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This is a curious bug in AutoCAD. 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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AutoCAD requires that a positive length dash segment be the first item in a linetype
definition.
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AutoCAD supports no parallel lines. With AutoCAD you must use another command, MLINE, to draw
parallel lines, and unfortunetely, you can only draw straight line segments.
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AutoCAD comes with 7 special (?) linetypes which are difficult to modify and don't work very
well.
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