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7 Dec 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Because Axiom's
FileFixer has distinguished itself worldwide as
the solution for automatic analysis and repair of MicroStation V7 and V8 design file corruption, there's really no reason not to reveal how we do it. Companies often protect their proprietary data and trade secrets but, what the heck, let's see what I can get past the editor.
"Mommy,
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7 Dec 2006
CAD Standards have been developed to improve productivity and interchange of CAD data between different offices and CAD programs. In theory, everyone agrees that CAD standards are a good thing to have, but why is it so hard to get people to adhere to them?
In a survey conducted by Axiom, out of 155 MicroStation users surveyed, 43.2% felt that the ...
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7 Dec 2006
By Stephen Spangler, US Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center
BIM, BIM, BIM. Building Information Modeling. Unless you have been hiding under a rock — or with respect to the design world, under your drafting desk — you have at least heard of or read about BIM technology. If you attend any of the big CAD vendor conferences, such as the BE ...
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7 Dec 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — We know that the work-a-day world is filled with deadlines. These deadlines can turn into late nights at the office, away from our friends and families. Now that the holiday season is here, we especially want to focus on our family. This is the time to come together, watch football and fight over who gets the last bit of apple pie ...
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7 Dec 2006
View the pictorial account of Axiom's travels to MicroStation user group meetings around the world.
Mike Arroyo, Axiom's Executive Product Manager for Learning, delivering a demonstration to Aziz Bulling of Virginia DOT at the International Highway Engineering Exchange Program Conference in Virginia.
Ivan Pena, Axiom's VP for Marketing, speaking about CAD Standards at the American Society for
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7 Nov 2006
According to a 2002 article published in the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice by Moncef Nehdi, P.E., "the brightest students entering post-secondary education are often attracted by routes other than engineering that are perceived more likely to yield careers of higher prestige and greater returns. For civil engineering in particular, this is further compounded by the fact that the field is ...
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7 Nov 2006
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA — Sometimes you need a little help from your friends. When CAD Coordinator Charles Pinckney of Perry, Crabb & Associates had the daunting task of organizing 1,000 cells, his friend in the IT department gave him a gentle shove in the direction of
CellManager.
Charles found that he saved immense amounts of time by using
CellManager to condense ...
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7 Nov 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Day after day, MicroStation managers and users ask us for solutions to the latest time-consuming problems that have been tossed their way. Most of the time, these problems are due to orders to bring about consistency in the CAD environment or a client's last-minute demands.
Axiom's
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit comprises a package of MicroStation utilities that gives you the power to handle ...
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7 Nov 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
CellManager has been one of the most demanded applications in Axiom's
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for more than a decade. The latest release of
CellManager for V8 includes some new features that were added to satisfy customer requests.
The new CellManager for V8 release allows you to import DGNs, DWGs and other CAD file types into your
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7 Oct 2006
By Chris Borales, Product Manager
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — As a software designer I am often confronted with questions. Questions that range from "How does this work?" to "Why is that there?" and especially "Can it do this?" It's my job to find answers to each of them. In particular, a question posed to me by
Title Block Manager users was, "How can I use ...
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