MLINE versus DLINE
Here's a case where AutoCAD LT beats its big sibling! AutoCAD (full version) includes an extremely unwieldy command called MLINE for drawing multiple parallel lines. You can draw such lines in the same way you pick points for the LINE command, but multilines are unintuitive to configure and pretty darned difficult to edit.
AutoCAD LT doesn't have MLINE, but it does have a different command called DLINE. DLINE (as in Double LINE) may not draw more than two parallel lines, and it can't add colored fills, but it's logical to use and much easier to edit. And sorry, AutoCAD users (I've been waiting to write that for the whole book!), but you don't have DLINE.
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