Making the final map in Arc's layout view can be best described as a balance between insanity and "you've got to be kidding"
ARCGIS VS MAPINFO FREE
The shapefile is then manipulated in to fit the visual effects required by my users, which use ArcReader, a rather handy free program from ESRI, to do queries and some base manipulation. Usually I will create county wide layers in Autocad, do all the edits, which it does in double precision, and add the base attributes that will attach to a database in Arc, and then ship that out in a shape format that has the coordinate system attached to that. I started using ESRI products for about ten years and have found doing layouts with analysis is much less tedious in their product. Hi I have been using AutoCad since the old 10 version for DOS! I have to agree that doing edits, cleaning drawing, using blocks and using COGO is a snap in Autocad Map 3d. It's not a problem for 1000 or polygons, but if you have > 100000 polygons and they have to be filled in different colors based on any attributive field makes Map3D slow on display while ArcGIS plays around.Īnd now waiting for others, that's just my 2c currently ArcGIS can handle much more data on high performance, especially for thematic maps.ArcGIS has it's strength in analyses, Map3D get closer and closer to the abilites of ArcGIS, but Map3D has not all types of analyses yet that ArcGIS offers.don't think that modifying a SHP in ArcGIS is topological proofed, you might get then overlaps or holes in your working area without any warning. so also creation and manipulation of really topological data is a thing Map3D is able to do that.With a given tolerance Map3D is able to handle/repair that defects. Check existing geometry for defects like overshoot, undershoot, crossings. + AutoCAD Map3D => geometry cleaning / creation of topologies using a lot of different plotters and plot formats (especially oversizes) is no problem for AutoCAD-based products.all is relativ easy to create compared to ArcGIS the setup of a layout, including titleblock, multiple viewports.
ARCGIS VS MAPINFO FULL
So you should also start such a thread in the ArcGIS and MapInfo discussion forums.
ARCGIS VS MAPINFO SOFTWARE
Second: whatever forum you start such a thread will result in "the software I use is the best", in that case here all use Map3D, so guess what percentage of users will mark Map3D as best