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31 Aug 2010
By Ed Mendoza, Axiom Learning Expert
Want to speed up your design work in V8i or XM? Try using these keyboard shortcuts.
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23 Jul 2010
Want a better way to edit your user's workspaces without having to wade through complex MicroStation configuration files just to find the variable definition you need to edit?
Axiom's
Global Workspace Manager allows CAD managers to set up, monitor and change MicroStation workspace configuration settings on multiple workstations from a single location!
Now, Global Workspace Manager 2.1 has an interface similar to MicroStation's "Workspace | Configuration | ...
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15 Jun 2010
By Abraham Rodriguez, CAD Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff
We recently upgraded to MicroStation V8i. As you know, with upgrades come lots of learning and troubleshooting. For the first month or so, we kept having to jump back and forth between MicroStation V8 2004 edition and V8i just to keep production moving until we figured out how to overcome the issues we were running into.
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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
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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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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15 May 2009
And four solutions!
Have you ever had difficulty importing text from Microsoft Word or tables from Excel into MicroStation with the correct text justification, tabs and spacing intact?
Have you ever opened a design file and discovered that one or more reference files are not attached due to messed up reference file attachment paths?
Have you ever needed to make changes to some text in hundreds of design ...
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15 May 2009
By Rick Sewell
Have you ever had a need to determine which of your massive set of DGN project files contained a specific text string or a particular cell or model or level? How do you handle those situations now? How much time have you lost on projects just trying to locate things? How much money do you lose on time-consuming searches?
Now you can instantly and ...
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7 Apr 2009
This month, we will go over how to speed up your V8 design work using keyboard shortcuts.
You will notice that the toolbar icons have characters below them. These are the shortcut keys associated with each tool set.
Preferences dialog (under Workspace menu)
To take advantage of these shortcuts, you must first enable Position Mapping (Workspace | Preferences).
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