The only think keeping us on it right now is the fact that it’s got a nicer drafting program draped over top. Which is what we use it for.
The software is such a pile of garbage now, anytime you actually want to use it hidden behind 15 menus, the license model just randomly changes every quarter, they keep adding new features and not fixing literally critical regressions (you can’t split at a vertex when the map reference differs from the feature reference in 3.4-3.6 because they messed up something in the new data model. This has taken a backseat to adding an AI agent to the tool search bar).
I use primarily arcpy in my work to interact with the design database and source data, but to get that into a usable state required me writing 3 wrapper libraries and becoming the #1 question answerer on their developer forums because apparently it’s just trash and no one cares. I’ll make recommendations with sample code and find out that they just straight up copy pasted my example into the codebase the following quarter.
I have loved my interactions with shapely and gdal systems though. Planning on modifying my libraries to use them as a fallback so I can try and have a unified interface for both systems.
The only think keeping us on it right now is the fact that it’s got a nicer drafting program draped over top. Which is what we use it for.
The software is such a pile of garbage now, anytime you actually want to use it hidden behind 15 menus, the license model just randomly changes every quarter, they keep adding new features and not fixing literally critical regressions (you can’t split at a vertex when the map reference differs from the feature reference in 3.4-3.6 because they messed up something in the new data model. This has taken a backseat to adding an AI agent to the tool search bar).
I use primarily arcpy in my work to interact with the design database and source data, but to get that into a usable state required me writing 3 wrapper libraries and becoming the #1 question answerer on their developer forums because apparently it’s just trash and no one cares. I’ll make recommendations with sample code and find out that they just straight up copy pasted my example into the codebase the following quarter.
I have loved my interactions with shapely and gdal systems though. Planning on modifying my libraries to use them as a fallback so I can try and have a unified interface for both systems.