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7 Aug 2007
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
After you've installed an Axiom MDL (MicroStation Development Language) program you should have an Axiom pull-down menu from which to run it. What do you do if it isn't there?
The truth is, there are several MicroStation Workspace settings that could cause your menu to not show up. I've found that it is usually caused by a
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7 Jul 2007
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
Global File Changer is exactly what it sounds like. This thing can bulk modify just about anything in multiple design files and fast. It is my personal favorite Axiom product due to its amazing versatility.
While it is true that
Global File Changer is incredibly multifaceted, the single most utilized feature by far is its ability to bulk modify text.
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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
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
I want to show you one of the newest features added to the Axiom menu. You can now rearrange your Axiom software applications on the Axiom pull-down menu so it is organized they way you want.
For example, you could group your quality assurance products together, including
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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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7 Apr 2007
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
Since I am in the Axiom Support Department, I hear many common issues that people have. One frequent topic is the Axiom pull-down menu. How to display only the products that the designers use is one of the queries that I run into again and again.
Sample of the Axiom pull-down menu in MicroStation V8
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7 Jan 2007
By Rick Sewell, Director of Customer Services and Support
Many CAD Managers install Axiom products on a network. One concern that is shared among them is that their users (using the same product on the network) may overwrite each other's settings files. This can be undesirable, especially when the users are working on different projects that require different settings. To avoid this, you can use ...
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7 Sep 2006
An Axiom customer recently asked us to teach him how to add a frequently used cell to a button on a tool box, so that he could just click on an icon and place the cell, instead of having to find the cell in the cell library.
Before you start: First, you have to attach the cell library that contains the cell you want to place, ...
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7 Aug 2006
Level libraries are a MicroStation V8 enhancement that allow you to ensure consistency by offering an easy way to standardize level settings in your design files. Level libraries are very similar to the LVL files found in previous versions of MicroStation .
Find the Level Manager display under the Settings dropdown.
The Level Manager (Settings | Level | Manager) ...
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7 May 2006
In this tip, you will learn how to change the view control settings associated with your mouse's wheel. This tip assumes two things: 1) you are using MicroStation V8 and 2) your mouse has a wheel.
First, go to Workspace | Preferences and click on "Mouse" from the category selections.
Preferences dialog box
Under the "Set Mouse Preferences" section of the dialog ...
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