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7 Apr 2009
This month, we will go over how to speed up your V8 design work using keyboard shortcuts.
You will notice that the toolbar icons have characters below them. These are the shortcut keys associated with each tool set.
Preferences dialog (under Workspace menu)
To take advantage of these shortcuts, you must first enable Position Mapping (Workspace | Preferences).
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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 Jan 2008
By Steve Palmer
Clearwater, Florida, USA — It's almost midnight. You are wrapping up a project submittal for an important client. MicroStation keeps crashing when you attempt to open a vital project design file. The necessity for a
FileFixer midnight miracle is abundantly real to you right now. Just press
FileFixer's <Start> button and you're back to work in three minutes.
But
FileFixer's midnight miracles, ...
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7 Dec 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — 'Tis the season for new CAD training courses at Axiom. The month of December will see even more new training options under the tree. October brought a flurry of activity at the
LearningBay workshop, leading to the big release in November of the much-anticipated InRoads Essentials courses for both MicroStation and AutoCAD. While that was underway, Axiom's content development elves were ...
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7 Dec 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Have you ever encountered:
- A "Tool not allowed" message?
- Models in which elements cannot be modified or added?
- Models that are "read only", but shouldn't be?
- Hidden levels?
- Hidden reference file attachments?
- Elements displayed with incorrect level symbology?
- Other odd design file behavior?
The majority of Axiom clients have now moved to MicroStation V8 or XM. Not surprisingly, the number of project-stopping, corrupted, V8 files reported to Axiom is ...
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7 Nov 2007
Kansas City, Missouri, USA — When
MicroStation Today caught up with Frank Nelson at the Mid-Continent MicroStation Community (MCMC) summer conference in Kansas City, he was swamped. In addition to his busy life as project manager for Burns & McDonnell, he also volunteers as a vendor coordinator for the MCMC and just had a grandson.
Frank Nelson would like to
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7 Nov 2007
By Fredrick R. Kenniston III
Clearwater, Florida, USA — You hold your tongue as you say, "How many times do I have to tell you how to locate what library a certain cell is in?" to a somewhat bewildered co-worker. I know, you probably never get impatient, but this is the third time he has been back, almost begging you to tell him, again, how to ...
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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 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — "HELP ME! I can't open my V8 file with MicroStation!" Axiom's support team hears this plea all too often. They receive more calls about V8 design file corruption than V7 design file corruption.
MicroStation attempts to abort gracefully after opening a corrupted V8 file.
MicroStation V8 users report models which they can't activate. They also report elements ...
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7 Dec 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Because Axiom's
FileFixer has distinguished itself worldwide as
the solution for automatic analysis and repair of MicroStation V7 and V8 design file corruption, there's really no reason not to reveal how we do it. Companies often protect their proprietary data and trade secrets but, what the heck, let's see what I can get past the editor.
"Mommy,
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