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23 Feb 2010
No one ever got fired for getting projects done on time.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Every day lately, somebody who’s planning on migrating to MicroStation’s latest V8i version asks me, “Is
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit ready for V8i?” The answer is, “Yes!”
Every one of the “big gun” software products that
Toolkit owners have depended on to help them get the toughest MicroStation projects done and delivered on ...
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23 Feb 2010
Find and fix errors before they find and fix you.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — There are some things that CAD users and CAD managers need from MicroStation that it simply doesn’t do (or does very slowly). Sometimes, the limitations of MicroStation cost you a lot of time; other times, they can cost you your reputation. For instance, according to the specifications from your client, there should ...
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23 Feb 2010
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom has just announced brand-new technology that allows MicroStation users to instantly find elements in hundreds of design files based on how close geographically the elements are to each other.
For instance, you can now instantly:
- Find all text elements in all design files containing the string “gas fumes” within 8 inches of a cell named “flame”.
- Find all instances of text string “Cliff”
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23 Feb 2010
By Rick Sewell
Rejected! You know the feeling. It’s the one that washes away any feeling of satisfaction you might have had when you completed and submitted that last project. In looking over the reason the project was rejected, you find out that certain elements were put on the wrong level. In fact, all of the elements on “Electric-Main” shouldn’t be there and need to be ...
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30 Dec 2009
Do you like doing the same thing, over and over, for hours on end?
Clearwater, Florida, USA — How do you handle the sheet numbers and sheet counts in title blocks after inserting a new sheet into a set? Do you edit the affected values in every title block in every sheet manually? While plodding through a set of design files, one at a time, typing ...
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30 Dec 2009
How to avoid losing on a MicroStation project that has overly complex CAD standards
By Rick DeWitt
I was talking to a CAD manager in the Washington, DC area the other day who seemed ready to collapse. He had been trying to get his designers to follow a client’s CAD standard for a project and all of his designers were complaining because the standards were complex, cumbersome ...
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14 Oct 2009
Now with ProjectWise support
By Eiren Smith
Want to bring Excel spreadsheet or Word document information into MicroStation with perfect formatting and a link to the original Excel spreadsheet or Word document in case information in the spreadsheet or Word document changes in the future? Do you already use
Microsoft Office Importer but were frustrated because you couldn’t use it on ProjectWise projects?
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14 Oct 2009
So where is the fault and what can be done about it?
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Why is it V8 elements fall off the edge of the design plane? How is it possible a V8 element no longer resides on a defined level? Why is it certain elements or entire models can’t be selected? Why can’t MicroStation open some V8 files?
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9 Oct 2009
DgnCompare permits users to distinctly see the differences between any two MicroStation design files. The program shows the user which elements have been added, which elements have been deleted and which elements have had only their color, weight, style or level modified from the initial version of the MicroStation file.
The latest version of
DgnCompare was enhanced to work with MicroStation V8i. Additionally, the new release ...
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5 Aug 2009
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom, the most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation software solutions, announces the release of
CadExplorer version 2.0. The new release allows users to make batch modifications to text elements in multiple design files quickly and with the ability to preview changes in a spreadsheet-like view before committing them!
Now you can modify as much text
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