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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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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 Oct 2007
By Rick Sewell
Almost everyone is doing it, upgrading their MicroStation V7 (95, SE and J) formatted files to V8. Whether project by project or all at once, the transition to V8 is on.
Every so often, a customer calls and asks whether Axiom has a tool to help automatically convert their V7 files to V8. Fortunately for customers, I can simply show the built-in Batch ...
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7 Sep 2007
Automate the process of adding new reference files.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom is pleased to give you back your evenings and weekends. As the world's oldest and largest third-party solutions provider for MicroStation, Axiom is known for breakthrough enhancements to the applications in
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit. Coincident with
RefManager's 20th anniversary (
RefManager is a
Toolkit component), Axiom outdoes itself by offering one of the most ...
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7 Mar 2004
Save some time and attach reference files to a design file by selecting them in Windows Explorer and dragging and dropping them into the "Reference Files" dialog box in MicroStation. This can be especially helpful for users with multiple monitors and can be done with both vector and raster reference files.

To attach a reference file to a design file,
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