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Posts Archive

• MicroStation Today — March 2010 (Volume 17, Issue 3)
• Thank God! MicroStation Productivity Toolkit is ready for MicroStation V8i!
• How ONE software tool allows you to unlock all the secrets of your MicroStation files anywhere on your network
• Extra: Revolutionary new MicroStation technology allows proximity searching.
• Axiom releases V8i Essentials — Interface Basics, another LearningBay MicroStation training course for V8i.
• Tips & Tricks — Quickly and easily move elements from one level to another in all of your design files — in batch.
• Axiom releases V8i Essentials — Tool Enhancements Part 3, another LearningBay MicroStation training course for V8i.
• Axiom releases another LearningBay MicroStation V8i course covering tool enhancements.
• MicroStation Today — January 2010 (Volume 17, Issue 1)
• Tips & Tricks — MicroStation drawing inspection made easier than ever.
• The agony of renumbering an entire set of MicroStation sheet files
• Missed deadlines causing pain?
• Axiom releases another LearningBay MicroStation V8i course covering tool enhancements.
• Axiom releases another LearningBay MicroStation V8i course.
• Import Excel 2007 spreadsheets into MicroStation with perfect formatting.
• Axiom releases LearningBay’s first V8i e-learning course.
• Easily import Excel spreadsheets and Word documents into design files with perfect formatting.
• Tips & Tricks — Replace the reference file paths in all of your sheet files at the same time!
• Delayed MicroStation projects aren’t your fault.
• MicroStation Today — October 2009 (Volume 16, Issue 10)
• New release of DgnCompare now works with V8i.
• Axiom releases LearningBay Course V8 XM — Discover 3D: Building Blocks Part 1.
• New technology can instantly find and modify text elements in hundreds of DGN files!
• Are your CAD standards being violated?
• Why CAD training doesn’t work
• MicroStation Today — August 2009(Volume 16, Issue 8)
• Illinois Department of Transportation selects Axiom’s LearningBay™ for training MicroStation users.
• New technology instantly finds text elements in thousands of MicroStation files and modifies them — in one super-fast batch process!
• Finding CAD project data is fast and easy with CadExplorer.
• MicroStation Today — June 2009(Volume 16, Issue 6)
• Microsoft Office Importer adds ProjectWise support.
• Save time and prevent a CAD standards nightmare.
• Four problems users have with MicroStation
• Tips & Tricks — How to quickly find any text string (or just about anything else) in all the design files at your entire site
• MicroStation Tip Corner — MicroStation V8 XM keyboard shortcuts
• Product Review: Nigel Davies puts Global Workspace Manager through its paces.
• New technology lets you analyze your MicroStation data in ways never before possible!
• MicroStation Today — April 2009(Volume 16, Issue 4)
• New technology lets users analyze MicroStation data in ways never before possible.
• Google and MicroStation have baby!
• Making your MicroStation life easier
• Tips & Tricks — Import Microsoft Office text into MicroStation without messing up the text height.
• MicroStation Today — March 2009(Volume 16, Issue 3)
• Fix dead design files fast!
• Easily modify all your MicroStation tags with just a few mouse-clicks.
• What do you mean the global origin is wrong?
• How to speed up MicroStation production — CADsmart CEO, Rory Vance, talks about technical competence and production speed
• MicroStation V7 tips from Lee Wilson of Day & Zimmermann
• Tips & Tricks — Replace text strings with Global File Changer.
• MicroStation Today — February 2009(Volume 16, Issue 2)
• How to save time and increase profits
• Optimizing MicroStation workspaces for faster production
• Five reasons why LearningBay training could be dangerous
• Will AutoCAD lose market share? — Bob Moeller points to untapped market.
• Tips & Tricks — How to use a configuration variable to customize the Axiom menu
• MicroStation Today — January 2009(Volume 16, Issue 1)
• MicroStation’s little-known secret saves massive amounts of time and money.
• Fight back!
• Manage all your MicroStation workspaces without leaving your desk!
• How to get a project done that no one else can do
• MicroStation Today — December 2008(Volume 15, Issue 12)
• Making your MicroStation life easier
• Will true interoperability change the CAD industry? Melcher Mack, CAD Manager for Bergmann Associates, talks about 3D design, multiple disciplines and the future of CAD.
• FileFixer dispels myth.
• Axiom releases InRoads Vertical Geometry Tools e-learning course.
• Tips & Tricks — Create more MicroStation screen real estate.
• Tips & Tricks — Quickly build large lists of files to process when using Axiom’s products.
• MicroStation Today — November 2008(Volume 15, Issue 11)
• The secret to making money as a CAD manager
• The curse of the mummy’s deadline
• Update design file settings fast!
• Axiom releases new InRoads XM Corridor Modeling courses.
• Tips & Tricks — Load your favorite MicroStation V8 commands fast with a function key.
• MicroStation Today — October 2008(Volume 15, Issue 10)
• Axiom releases color raster reference file editor!
• FileFixer release detects and repairs another new V8-specific fatal error.
• XM Update courses released.
• Why settle for a toolkit when you could have the whole Garage?
• Multiple string operations added to new RefManager interface.
• Tips & Tricks — Maximize your batch processing power by executing your own MicroStation macros with Global File Changer.
• Coming soon to a MicroStation seat near you: The Rise of Microsoft Office Importer!
• Tips & Tricks — Help! I need to turn off reference file display.
• MicroStation Today — September 2008(Volume 15, Issue 9)
• Project Impossible – CAD manager looks for something he doesn’t want to find
• What’s it worth to you? — Increasing quality of life for the overworked CAD manager
• Losing time in InRoads trying to find the quickest solution?
• Light tables and magnifying glasses retired. MicroStation V8 models can now be compared automatically!
• Keeping planes in the air
• Tips & Tricks — Customize your MicroStation XM look and feel.
• MicroStation Today — August 2008(Volume 15, Issue 8)
• A fifth grader can repair corrupted MicorStation files with FileFixer
• BE Conference 2008 – The lighter side of BE
• Unconventional business practices thrust into the public eye!
• The father of American architecture – An interview with President Thomas Jefferson.
• Tips & Tricks — Learn about the changes made to the “Main” tool box in XM.
• MicroStation Today — July 2008(Volume 15, Issue 7)
• Easing the pain of MicroStation/AutoCAD® translations
• Code name: Salamander… What does it all mean? – A MicroStation mystery
• The secret behind excellent infrastructure
• Saving time, saving money and getting the job done
• Tips & Tricks — Create your own MicroStation pull-down menu.
• MicroStation Today — June 2008(Volume 15, Issue 6)
• How to win the war on MicroStation terror
• Model Merging in MicroStation
• CAD Controversy – What do you have to say?
• Axiom acquires RasEdit!
• Speed up AutoCAD® production with new vBooks™ training technology!
• Working with a “glorified etch-a-sketch” – Transportation Manager Ronald McDonald talks about solving MicroStation problems at the Alabama Department of Transportation.
• Tips & Tricks — Create your own MicroStation tool box.
• MicroStation Today — May 2008(Volume 15, Issue 5)
• MicroStation V8 corruption epidemic
• New InRoads e-learning courses make users billable faster!
• It was twenty years ago today… Steve Palmer enters his third decade with Axiom.
• Youngest CEO in America
• Is 4D in your future?
• Tips & Tricks — The Project Manager’s nightmare! How do you quickly renumber 237 sheets?
• Toolkit maintenance holders to get free program!
• How to undelete your weekends
• The double rainbow
• Trains keep a rollin’!
• Tips & Tricks — Update your levels to match new V8 standards: Part III.
• What’s next — political corruption?
• Insisting on the best — How CAD Manager Donnell Griffith handles the constant pressure to get the job done faster and easier
• Ahead, warp factor nine! — Axiom’s LearningBay Enterprise pushes learning to new frontiers.
• Got CAD standards?
• Need a set of standalone sheet files for your project?
• Tips & Tricks — Update your levels to match new V8 standards: Part II.
• New Year’s resolution: Save time, reduce effort and maximize profit!
• Get MicroStation work done faster with Axiom Custom Programming.
• Learn GEOPAK Criteria and PowerCivil at your own pace, from your own desk!
• How to import Microsoft Office files into MicroStation with perfect formatting
• Tips & Tricks — Update your levels to match new V8 standards: Part I.
• Look what’s under the tree. Axiom releases online training for MicroStation XM!
• Title Block Manager: The Legend
• The importance of integrating CAD and IT – An interview with Ken Shigemitsu
• Mysteriously messed up V8 files
• Tips & Tricks — Troubleshooting MicroStation problems made easy.
• New InRoads training libraries!
• Your friendly Axiom Maintenance Plus gal
• From city streets to drag strips to dams — An interview with Burns & McDonnell’s Frank Nelson
• Increase productivity with Axiom training.
• Tips & Tricks — A shortcut that will make your life easier
• The truth about FileFixer, MicroStation design file corruption and you
• Bringing new ideas to life — An interview with Dr. Victor Frankenstein
• Quickly create custom cell selector files!
• Mission: Project Workflow Optimization
• Tips & Tricks — Help! I need to turn off reference file display.
• Make life easier with cloning.
• Do you have the need for speed?
• Changing files across the globe – An interview with Australia’s Colin Asplin
• Global File Changer now manages design file settings!
• CAD Controversy Letters to the Editor: DGN or DWG?
• The world’s largest oil company asks Axiom for custom solution.
• Your wish is our command (or macro).
• Tips & Tricks: Where’s my Axiom pull-down menu?
• New SpecChecker handles huge rules files — fast!
• Control all of your cell libraries simultaneously.
• CAD Manager’s challenge: Upgrading 400 users to MicroStation V8
• BE Conference: Bentley Empowered 2007
• Tips & Tricks — Replace text strings with Global File Changer.
• FileFixer conquers the expanding universe of MicroStation design file corruption.
• With MicroStation Productivity Toolkit, help is there when you need it.
• Microsoft Office Importer users tell it like it is!
• “If you want return business, make your drawings look good.” An interview with Crispell-Snyder’s Chris Elvin
• New release: DgnQuickPick now has the ability to open models — instantly!
• Tips & Tricks — Launch any .ma or .exe from the Axiom menu.
• FileFixer helps you understand and fix file corruption even faster.
• Team effort that changed a man’s life
• CAD Controversy
• Axiom and Philips: Healing the sick with CellManager
• Adding submenus to your Axiom pull-down menu
• MicroStation e-learning world turned upside down!
• InRoads guru, Mark Ditko, and Axiom unite to create first-ever InRoads e-learning courses.
• Bentley customers share their experiences with LearningBay.
• Axiom announces the release of LearningBay Enterprise.
• LearningBay authoring
• Automate reference and master file merging with RefMerge
• CAD Controversy: CAD Administrator for Crispell-Snyder contributes his view on the CAD standards debate.
• Property boundaries made easy with MicroStation
• Weekend barbecue plans saved by Title Block Manager
• How to configure your Axiom pull-down menu
• FileFixer even handles explosive decompression.
• CAD Controversy
• Mississippi Department of Transportation CAD Manager’s three favorite design tools: FileFixer, RefWriter and Microsoft Office Importer.
• Time travel is possible, if you use RefWriter.
• Easily make batch changes to tag and dimension text!
• Editor’s Forum: Why We Need a Unified CAD File Format
• Google SketchUp attachments supported in new RefManager for MicroStation V8.
• If only FileFixer could fix the human soul…
• She wants diamonds. You want MicroStation Productivity Toolkit.
• New Year’s resolution: Consume less time switching between design files.
• New Bentley PowerCivil and GEOPAK Criteria training courses released.
• SpecChecker and SpecMonitor now check working units and V8 reference attachments.
• Axiom at the FLUG
• Why it’s Smart to Own RefManager
• MicroStation Tip Corner – Configuration Variables for Settings Files
• Axiom reveals the secrets of FileFixer.
• CAD Controversy: Do you really need CAD standards?
• What is BIM and why should I care about it?
• How the new release of Microsoft Office Importer guarantees more pie this holiday season
• Axiom on the road
• Editor’s Forum: Is there an approaching shortage of CAD users?
• CAD Coordinator — of famous historical heritage — organizes 1,000 cells in four hours with CellManager.
• How to survive the constant demands for change in the MicroStation world.
• CellManager for V8 is in the import business.
• New Title Block Manager handles multiple title blocks in each design file.
• UK consultant shares how he completes weeks of hard work in a few hours.
• The Ongoing Necessity for V8 File Repair.
• Can small MicroStation sites save time with add-on software?
• Adding a cell to a tool box
• Product Review: DgnQuickPick
• Axiom releases the world’s first GEOPAK Survey and Advanced Road online training courses.
• FileFixer certified for MicroStation V8 XM Edition.
• Bentley announces the commercial release of MicroStation V8 XM Edition.
• Did you BE?
• Introduction to Level Libraries
• New Mexico Department of Transportation uses MicroStation Productivity Toolkit to fight file corruption and gray hair.
• What’s it worth to you? – Increasing quality of life for the overworked CAD manager
• How to use RefManager to enable live nesting in multiple sheet files
• RBF Consulting Senior Designer shares his opinions about MicroStation Productivity Toolkit and the future of CAD.
• Introduction to SpecMonitor
• New on-line GEOPAK Site and Drainage training libraries available from Axiom.
• A Quantum Leap in V8 File Corruption Repair
• Bentley connects MicroStation to Google Earth.
• The Foot Controversy and the State Plane Coordinate System
• 30-year engineering veteran shares his MicroStation productivity secrets.
• Allies in the CAD Battlefield
• MicroStation Tip Corner – Your Mouse and View Controls
• Cedric Hider shares how he saves Cobb, Fendley & Associates $500 per week.
• Duty of the CAD Manager
• Unleashing the genius within
• Latest Toolkit additions focus on increasing quality of deliverables.
• Former Marine — and mother of two — does eight hours of work in 60 minutes using Global File Changer.
• New GEOPAK e-learning courses cover entire road design process.
• Instantly access multiple design files in a single session of MicroStation!
• Donate your corrupted design files to science.
• MicroStation Tip Corner — Survey Foot versus International Foot: What’s the difference?
• Professional Engineer at AZTEC uses Toolkit to keep costs down and production levels up.
• Managing cell libraries quickly and effortlessly
• Save time while working with multiple design files!
• Illinois Department of Transportation and Axiom knock one out of the park!
• More tools for MicroStation V8!
• Global text replacement made easy!
• New GEOPAK Beginning Road training library released!
• Introduction to models for the new V8 user
• FileFixer busts design file corruption myths!
• ARCADIS CAD technician shares his love of Microsoft Office Importer and Godzilla.
• We are always listening to you.
• Enhancing MicroStation Productivity Toolkit.
• Axiom’s Mike Arroyo delivers MicroStation conspiracy keynote at 2005 IDDEA conference.
• Title Block Manager opens the door to managing all types of title blocks.
• The XM files: Using named fences as references.
• From television to prison: Santa Claus has had one heck of a year!
• New Microsoft Office Importer for MicroStation provides support for stacked fractions.
• Most common V8 design file corruption manifestations handled!
• More on MicroStation XM improvements: What’s in a name?
• How I created a project index design file while eating a chicken taco (using Microsoft Office Importer and Title Block Manager).
• RefManager avoids time-consuming pitfalls on your path to V8.
• Overview of user interface updates in MicroStation V8 XM Edition
• Select the MicroStation files you want to process faster!
• Bentley Award winner conquers three weeks of work overnight with RefManager.
• How to set up FileFixer to run automatically to help prevent design file corruption
• Small Texas civil engineering firm saves 50 hours per project using Axiom software.
• MicroStation V8 migration made easy
• New Title Block Manager supports Microsoft Access databases and is ten times faster!
• Axiom adds SpecMonitor CAD Standards software to Toolkit.
• Senior Drafter for NASA shares his secret for saving weeks of MicroStation work (and provides Super Bowl pick).
• Multi-line joints
• SpecChecker expert cuts through CAD standards confusion.
• Toolkit owners benefit from 18 years of relentless enhancements
• Train on GEOPAK without leaving your desk!
• There is an easy solution to your spreadsheet-importing problems!
• “I’ve been fooled before…”
• All it takes is one bad bit — the importance of FileFixer.
• Reclaim your evenings and weekends.
• Update any title block automatically!
• How to create your own personal workspace
• American Idol contender talks about his trials with importing spreadsheets into MicroStation.
• Upgraded FileFixer for V8 handles newfound V8 design file corruption.
• How to avoid migration disasters
• Longtime MicroStation guru makes Axiom his new home!
• How to update the project number in 1,000 sheets
• Eliminate V7 problems that slow down project submittals.
• New version of Microsoft Office Importer let you modify display attributes of spreadsheets previously placed in MicroStation files.
• MicroStation Tip Corner – Easily trim elements using the Trim Element tool.
• New AutoCAD product automatically fixes broken references to external files.
• How to increase the output and speed of your MicroStation design team
• How will your legacy V7 files behave once in V8?
• Controlling file translations between MicroStation V8 2004 and AutoCAD: the basic settings.
• 20 new MicroStation V7 and V8 training courses released!
• Quick access to past values in AccuDraw
• Fitting in MicroStation training efficiently into a large CAD shop.
• MicroStation Productivity Toolkit saves time and effort throughout project lifecycle.
• Axiom releases Title Block Manager for V8.
• Working less… and getting away with it — BASF Española’s CAD administrator shares his secrets.
• Align Tool in MicroStation J
• FileFixer for V8 breakthroughs revealed
• Delphi Automotive MicroStation expert ensures design file integrity using FileFixer.
• Axiom releases RuleManager for V8.
• Quick two-letter key-ins
• New Title Block Manager release supports tag data.
• New version of FileFixer for V8 handles newfound, V8-specific design file problems.
• Chatting with InRoads royalty
• MicroStation Productivity Toolkit cuts costs at sites of all sizes.
• How to install Axiom MDL applications to a network
• More fun with function keys!
• “Now that I’ve got FileFixer…”
• Canadian CAD manager speeds up quality control process of MicroStation files by 78%.
• New version of Problem Element Viewer for V8 supports Axiom’s MicroStation quality assurance tool, SpecChecker.
• New CellManager for V8 batch modifies text strings in cells throughout cell libraries.
• Let go of your mouse! Move around using function keys.
• Incorporating new Title Block Manager to your title block workflow
• CAD managers: Reduce your V8 workload!
• Odell Associates saves 4,800 man-hours per year using FileFixer.
• To import or not to import: a study of the behavior of spreadsheets when imported into MicroStation.
• The “Save View” key-in and reference files (for V7 and V8)
• The source of most MicroStation problems
• SpecChecker puts control back in the end-user’s hands.
• TC&B to implement company-wide MicroStation title block management solution, Title Block Manager.
• The SET RANGE key-in command
• Barone-Shultz saves client $5,400 in one day with CellManager.
• Pieper O’Brien Herr Architects and Axiom Conversion Services team up to meet project deadlines.
• Dragging and dropping reference files
• Concerned about MicroStation project deadlines?
• CellManager for V8 — more control over your MicroStation V8 cell libraries than ever before!
• Customers drive FileFixer enhancements.
• David Evans and Associates saves over $19,000 per year using utility in MicroStation Productivity Toolkit.
• Taking cell libraries to other dimensions!
• How to automatically re-sequence sheet numbers in title blocks with Title Block Manager
• Axiom releases new utility: Title Block Manager!
• Oregon DOT profits $42,000 per year from one software program.
• Confessions of a Microsoft Office Importer user.
• AccuSnap — I love it; I hate it; I love it!
• Axiom releases RefWriter for V8.
• Scientific study reveals increase in productivity from using multiple monitors.