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23 Feb 2010
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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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1 Jan 2010
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30 Dec 2009
By Steve Palmer
Are you often burdened with the task of manually inspecting multiple project design files in preparation for CAD standards inspections? Is it tedious for you to open up each project file, one by one, to check how well your drafting crew (or a subcontractor) complied with your drafting standards? How much time does this typically consume for each project — hours, days, weeks?
How ...
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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
By Rick Sewell
Have you ever completed a project and then found out that the client needs some of the references saved with a different path? The purpose of this article is to show you how to replace the reference file path saved in your sheet files — while retaining all of your varying reference file names — in just minutes.
- Load RefManager from your “Axiom” menu
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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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