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7 Jan 2009
By Rick Sewell
Often, it is beneficial to change what products are displayed on your Axiom pull-down menu for individual users or different classes of users working in different disciplines. It removes the potential confusion of what products are available to be used and restricts user access for any products that the Administrator does not want the user to use. The aximenu.cfg file lists what ...
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7 Nov 2008
By Rick Sewell
It seems that for every project that requires design work there are special menus that you have to use, certain palettes you need to keep open — not to mention the usual main menus you keep open all the time. Sometimes you cover more of your screen with menus than you do with your actual view window.
By default, MicroStation loads with the ...
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7 Nov 2008
By Eiren Smith
I want to save the maximum possible time. An often-overlooked bottleneck is the time spent telling those tools which files to process. This article covers some tips that will help you shave time off of using any Axiom tools that process large batches of files, saving you the maximum time possible.
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7 Oct 2008
By Rick Sewell
Busy MicroStation users are always on the lookout for a faster way to get work done. Here is a simple way to speed things up using function keys.
Have you ever noticed that row of keys at the top of your keyboard that start with "F" and seem to get no use at all? Well it just so happens you can make use ...
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7 Sep 2008
It's common to have to repeat the same task over and over in a given design file or in a series of design files. In these cases, it's nice to have a macro recorded that will perform that repetitive action without your having to go through all the key-strokes and mouse-clicks each time to get the task done. What's better is being able to run ...
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7 Sep 2008
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Large MicroStation projects tend to be broken up into multiple design files by discipline. You might have one set of designers working on plumbing, another set on electrical and so on. Then, a corresponding file from each discipline is referenced to a master file to complete the picture for that one set of files. Of course, ...
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7 Aug 2008
By Oscar Albornoz
Clearwater, Florida, USA — One of the things that makes MicroStation the most powerful CAD system is its flexibility to make it work for you.
MicroStation XM has been enhanced to give you more flexibility in molding how it works, making you more productive than ever before. The following are some of my favorite tricks for customizing MicroStation.
Set up MicroStation so that you ...
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7 Jul 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — The upgrade from MicroStation V8.5 to MicroStation XM came with a lot of enhancements. This article covers only what changed in the “Main” toolbar.
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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — The default installation of MicroStation has nine pull-down menus containing way over 100 menu items. That's not counting a couple dozen submenus on these same menus that contain another 100-plus menu items. Clearly MicroStation has no shortage of available options. And every one of them is necessary in order to accommodate the many and varying ways that companies use MicroStation.
But the ...
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7 May 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — MicroStation is jam-packed with button-laden tool boxes. Every one of those buttons performs some exact, necessary function. It couldn't be any other way. The ability to do all of these functions is part of what makes MicroStation one of the greatest pieces of CAD software in the world.
It is common when working on a project, to only need to use a ...
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