A common weakness in specialty GIS programs is its limitation to construct data with the ease that offers CAD-oriented tools. Gradually, the gap is narrowing, although it is questionable whether the GIS has had an improvement in their ability to build or CAD have implemented variants such as Bentley Geospatial Map and AutoCAD Map.
gvSIG 1.9 has made almost a literal copy of the most used AutoCAD tools, including the order in which the text line runs into at least 21 commands. The ones marked in red are new in stable 1.9 version, it had not been included the ones kept in the edit bar in this version, which seem to be from selection.
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It can be regarded as a significant gvSIG contribution to have integrated this tools suite, with AutoCAD’s logical work. In practice I saw technicians build with this tool, although many of them, for massive cadastral surveying, prefer working with a CAD tool, create a polygon and then bring them to gvSIG; most of them say that it is because work upon Java is always slow.
On the other hand, for cadastral maintenance, once they have been uploaded topologies to PostGIS, it has no meaning to take data and edit them in a CAD tool; and then these tools become useful. For large amounts of data, it always affects Java resource consumption.