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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
I am ...
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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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7 Mar 2006
In a recent thread on the Bentley newsgroups, we came across some confusion about the differences between an International Foot and a U.S. Survey Foot. We thought it would be fun to shed some light on what these "feet" are and how much measurements would deviate due to the difference in unit length.
History
According to the National Institute of Standards and ...
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7 Mar 2006
What do you do if your cell libraries do not comply with your client's CAD submission standards? What do you do when your cell libraries become so bloated that it's hard to find the cells you need? Instead of investing your time and resources in recreating or modifying cell libraries manually, why not save yourself hours of wasted production time by using
CellManager to easily ...
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7 Feb 2006
By Eiren Smith, Axiom Product Manager
Global File Changer is Axiom's tool for making global changes to multiple design files. In addition to providing a flexible framework from which users can execute almost any imaginable task operation on multiple design files,
Global File Changer contains its own arsenal of custom commands. These custom commands, built from years of feedback from MicroStation users of all types, ...
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