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7 Jun 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA —It's summertime here in Florida and that often means sweltering temperatures, long lines at Disney World and bad tan lines. Rather than venture outdoors, I find myself sorting through my e-mail inbox to see what users are saying about using
Microsoft Office Importer. Just so you know,
Microsoft Office Importer is Axiom's most popular utility in terms of total number of users, ...
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7 Jun 2007
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, USA — We at Axiom meet interesting, dedicated MicroStation users every day. This month, we'd like you to meet Chris Elvin, CAD Administrator for Crispell-Snyder, Incorporated of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
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7 Jun 2007
New file tree structure offers amazing new features to save users' time.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Since its initial release in January 2006,
DgnQuickPick has been the only MicroStation add-on that gives users the ability to select the MicroStation file they want to open with one mouse click.
Figure 1: The "DgnQuickPick File Tree" (V7 version) displays all the reference files attached
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7 Jun 2007
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
The Axiom Support Department receives a lot of mail asking about modifying the Axiom pull-down menu. One typical request is from CAD managers who want to remove or rearrange products on the Axiom pull-down menu so it looks just right for their particular users.
In addition to being able to modify the existing contents of the Axiom pull-down menu, you can ...
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7 May 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — "When design file corruption brings your project to a halt, you don't have time to mess around. You need the file salvaged now! You need help. The newest release of
FileFixer gives you that help at a whole new level of speed and ease.
With FileFixer's new context-sensitive help options, users can search for
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7 May 2007
An interview with Engineering Specialist, Luis Sanchez
El Paso, Texas, USA — Luis Mario Sanchez III is an Engineering Specialist for Bain Medina Bain, a Texas engineering firm. In his 12-year career, he has dealt mostly with transportation infrastructure projects. Luis told us of one special project that he'll never forget.
Luis Sanchez, Engineering Specialist, at the Tower of the
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7 May 2007
Eindhoven, The Netherlands — When a multinational electronics giant wants to increase quality and speed of service, who do they call?
Philips Medical Systems (Philips) of Eindhoven, The Netherlands is one of the key players in the world of major medical devices like x-ray, CAT scan and MRI systems. After a sale of such sophisticated (and large) devices, a hospital room must be configured for the ...
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21 Apr 2007
"My experience with
LearningBay has been great! We chose
LearningBay after several good experiences with other Axiom products. We needed a product that could be used anywhere, anytime.
LearningBay did that for us. Also,
LearningBay fit right in with our company's policies and procedures."
Jennifer Morrison,
WE Energies
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LearningBay is very good for educating CAD users. I've had very helpful service and the program is easy to follow ...
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7 Apr 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Unfortunately, many document management systems - while good with some types of file links - just do not understand MicroStation reference files. Plus, not everyone associated with architectural and engineering projects is an expert CAD user. This can result in untrained users submitting incomplete CAD files to be plotted or distributed.
RefMerge eliminates these problems by providing an automated way to generate ...
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7 Apr 2007
A common task for surveyors, civil engineers and GIS professionals is recreating a property boundary from a plat (a map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land). Typically, a plat will contain the bearings (direction expressed in degrees) and perimeter distances (lengths of the edges) of the property it describes. By changing just a few settings, MicroStation allows you to quickly ...
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