cad e raster design

[Marco_C]

Good morning!
I am a new user and I have undergone a fresh doubt to ask you.
I predict that from 2007 to today the use of cad for me was really sporadic, while from 2000 about to 2007 it was for 10 hours a day open on my pc.
now, after almost 8 years of yards, I am "turned to the office" and the cad is returning to be one of my most faithful collaborators.
in the company where I work now so far there has never been a technician who took care of graphics and technical design, so we are slowly preparing my post, also by purchasing specific programs; among these, a program falls obviously.
Now, from what seemed to me to understand in these first days I should not need particular potential from software cad... I simply have the opportunity to manage plants, prospects and sections of projects already developed, insert retini, coloring etc... bazzecole that you do with any cad.
Moreover, however, I will happen quite frequently to have to process tables with different types of cartography, often also overlapped. just a few days ago I happened to have to overlay a vector of a lottization plan, an aerophotogrannetrico and an orthophoto; on this base, draw then up.
as you know the overlap of different kinds of cartography often generates inconsistencies due to a thousand reasons that we do not care for now.
I had the same type of problem when I worked in an architectural study in which I had the task of vectorizing a regulator plan designed on aerophotogrammetric basis that I had in raster format and superimposed it to the cadastral. I remember that in that study we had the autocad map 3d and raster design that I was very useful especially when I had the difficulties on said and in particular the rubber sheet command allowed me to "adapt" the raster and "spalmarle" images at the best on the catasthal. Now a function like this would come back very useful and hence the idea of making a targeted purchase.
there are some things but I am not yet clear, and the list:
- is the rubber sheet command of raster design or autocad map 3d?
- raster design is an application that can be "combined" on either the normal cad or the map? or only on the map?
- autocad map and raster design can be used on mac platform (os x yosemite 10.10.2)?

and then your personal opinion:
Does it make sense, according to you, to buy such a specific program (that both map or raster design) only to exploit a functionality like that of the rubber sheet?
and... since in some cases I have the necisity that the cartography is perfectly (or almost) coincident... what could be the alternative to the use of software and features on said ones?

thanks in advance to all!

Mar

 

[liber]

Good morning!

- is the rubber sheet command of raster design or autocad map 3d?
- raster design is an application that can be "combined" on either the normal cad or the map? or only on the map?
- autocad map and raster design can be used on mac platform (os x yosemite 10.10.2)?

and then your personal opinion:
Does it make sense, according to you, to buy such a specific program (that both map or raster design) only to exploit a functionality like that of the rubber sheet?
Mar

answers:
- the rubber sheet command is the raster design
- raster design is an application that you can " match" at your choice both on normal autocad
- autocad map and raster design on mac I think not or better I don't know

in fact to draw decently it takes autocad full+rasterdesign
but angora better autocadmap+rasterdesign
there are so many features that sooner or later you notice are necessary and maybe they are under your nose (autocadmap) and you do not see them

 

[Tristan]

- is the rubber sheet command of raster design or autocad map 3d?

hi marco, the rubber sheeting on the raster is just raster design; map does so on vector entities possibly.

- raster design is an application that can be "combined" on either the normal cad or the map? or only on the map?

before you said. it also installs on autocad, but the best of if gives it with map3d

- autocad map and raster design can be used on mac platform (os x yosemite 10.10.2)?

no, unless you use a partition with win or parallels

Does it make sense, according to you, to buy such a specific program (that both map or raster design) only to exploit a functionality like that of the rubber sheet?

depends on what use you do. If every time you use it saves you on average 2-3 hours of work and you use it at least a couple of times a month, I would say you should buy it.
alternatives may be found in the open source world related to qgis or fat but I can't tell you for sure