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7 Aug 2007
New features allow you to make bulk changes to design file settings — hundreds of files at a time.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Has this ever happened to you? You are collaborating on a project and the work you get from your collaborator contains different working units, a different global origin or other differences in design file settings from the work you yourself have done. Is ...
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7 Aug 2007
Unified file format debate continues — opinions from around the world.
Let the users decide.
Dear Editor,

What will it take to unite all users under one standard file format?
I'd just like to respond to Brian MacCartney's comments to my comments and add a few more.
I totally agree that the DGN file format is superior to DWG and in an ideal world we'd ...
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7 Aug 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Recently, the world's largest oil producer, Saudi Aramco, asked Axiom to design and develop a customized utility that would aid in the standardization of their MicroStation V7 design files. Their official request was to, "develop a tool that reformats existing design files into a more structured layout."

The Saudi Aramco project was the most recent in a
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7 Aug 2007
Customer-driven enhancements in every Axiom product release
Clearwater, Florida, USA — It's no surprise that the world's most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation software solutions is also the most responsive to customer requests.
Despite being the oldest and largest third-party solutions provider for MicroStation internationally, Axiom remains spectacularly youthful and agile. Axiom's developers have completed more than 150 customer-driven application releases in the last year alone — ...
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7 Aug 2007
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
After you've installed an Axiom MDL (MicroStation Development Language) program you should have an Axiom pull-down menu from which to run it. What do you do if it isn't there?
The truth is, there are several MicroStation Workspace settings that could cause your menu to not show up. I've found that it is usually caused by a
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