Trails are free, yes indeed. Sometimes thirt party addons turn out to work on newer AutoCAD functions. Will do some testing myself and i am waiting for an answer from ESRI it will be updated.
Personally You seem to have have own reasons that you not like AutoCAD workflow. Thats all up to you,.. Rob.. But About,
'd rather go with something that is more flexible than AutoCAD for this type of thing.
I was wondering what would be more flexible in your opinion, and why think of it that way?
Without the editing
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