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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
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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19 Nov 2009
Axiom's lastest version of
Microsoft Office Importer for MicroStation was enhanced to work seamlessly with Excel 2007 spreadsheet data and Word 2007 documents.
New features were also added including the ability to import hyperlinks from Excel spreadsheets as engineering links in MicroStation and the ability to manage existing Excel chart pastes. Now you can easily change the path stored ...
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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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11 Sep 2009
The new update to
Discover 3D: Building Blocks Part 1 was just released. Already in demand, this course shows how to use AccuDraw in 3D and work with 3D Primitives such as slabs, cones and spheres. The course also covers how to create complex solids or SmartSolids as well as how to edit associated properties and features. The update includes videos and two step-by-step labs ...
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5 Aug 2009
How to make CAD training actually useful for you personally
By Mike Arroyo
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Has anyone noticed that most technical training is still delivered the way it was in the 1980s?
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