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7 Feb 2004
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, USA — Abe Arroyo's MicroStation shop at David Evans and Associates imports many Excel spreadsheets into MicroStation every month. The following is his account on how they used to do this without the help of Axiom's
Microsoft Office Importer — a popular component of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit — and how much time and money they saved by using it:
Abe: "Without
Microsoft Office Importer, ...
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7 Feb 2004
How do you convert a MicroStation V7 3D cell library to a V7 2D cell library and vice-versa? Easy! Just use MicroStation's "Export" function.
By Rick DeWitt, Axiom's Senior Technology Officer
The first step is to open a MicroStation file with dimensions (either 2D or 3D) that match the cell library you want to convert. Then, attach the cell library you want to convert. For example, ...
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7 Feb 2004
Title block data consistency easily accomplished
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
Title Block Manager helps CAD managers and MicroStation users bring about a consistency of title block data in all of a project's MicroStation files, fast. How? Read on.
By synchronizing title block data from many design files with an Excel spreadsheet, it is possible to easily make a number of changes right in the spreadsheet and then ...
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7 Jan 2004
Automate batch changes to title blocks!
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom recently announced the release of its latest MicroStation V7 utility. Easy to use and install,
Title Block Manager automates batch changes on title blocks placed in design files, helps maintain consistency of title block information and provides full reporting capabilities. In this first release,
Title Block Manager uses Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to update title block ...
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7 Jan 2004
SALEM, OREGON, USA — With over 250 MicroStation users in the CAD department, James Weisgram and Oregon DOT had to find a way to keep their CAD budget efficient. To accomplish this, they implemented
FileFixer.
FileFixer is the MicroStation utility that fixes design files automatically.
FileFixer is also the most popular component of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit, Axiom's software suite of productivity-boosting MicroStation tools. The following ...
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7 Jan 2004
By Tetra Tech CAD designer and experienced Axiom tools user, Bob Kangas
BRIGHTON, MICHIGAN, USA — At our Tetra Tech office, we save a lot of time and headaches by using
Microsoft Office Importer to import and update quantity lists and tables from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into our road-design MicroStation files.
Bob Kangas,
...
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7 Jan 2004
By Rick DeWitt, Axiom's Senior Technology Officer
AccuSnap is a new feature available in MicroStation V8. It is turned on by default when MicroStation V8 is installed. AccuSnap automatically moves or snaps the cursor to the keypoints of elements whenever the cursor comes within a certain range of a keypoint without having to actually initiate a tentative point. A little "x" visually snaps to the ...
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7 Jan 2004
MicroStation V8 users can now have the same ease of editing reference files in V8 that they had in V7.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — In response to demand by MicroStation users who work extensively with reference files, Axiom announces the release of
RefWriter, its popular V7 tool, in a version for V8. With
RefWriter for V8, MicroStation V8 users can edit attached reference files almost as ...
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7 Jan 2004
Productivity further increased with multiple-monitors-utility Dual-screen Window Manager.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA — According to recent scientific study done by NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America, Inc., ATI Technologies and the University of Utah, using multiple (two or more) monitors contributes to increased productivity and enhanced employee satisfaction.
The study, entitled "Productivity and Multi-Screen Displays" examines how multiple monitor configurations increase user productivity and usability. Multi-monitor computing is becoming ...
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