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7 Dec 2005
Axiom staff is working overtime!
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom's Development and Certification personnel are in a continuous blur of activity keeping up with client demands - Axiom has recently maintained an average of one or more new releases every week.
Each new release is promptly sent at no charge to Axiom maintenance holders for their immediate deployment and boosted productivity. MicroStation Today readers may already be ...
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7 Dec 2005
AMES, IOWA, USA — Is MicroStation V8 XM Edition the work of high-tech extraterrestrial super-beings or just the most intuitive CAD application ever developed? During the keynote presentation at the Iowa Digital Design and Engineering Applications (IDDEA) conference in Ames, Iowa, Axiom's Product Manager and MicroStation veteran Mike Arroyo suggested that it might have been a little of both.
Employing a creative combination of historical and ...
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7 Dec 2005
2005: a Title Block Manager odyssey
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — While
Title Block Manager, as a program, is far from becoming the software that powers an artificial intelligence system responsible for controlling a spacecraft, the creators of the HAL 9000 (the astronaut-killing, omniscient supercomputer of the book and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey) would be proud of the leaps and bounds made by the
Title Block ...
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7 Dec 2005
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Reference files don't exist anymore. Not in the traditional sense at least. Since the release of V8, every model inside a V8 design file can be referenced into another model, so the design file has been transformed into a design container. Entire projects can be stored in one DGN file — which is why we MicroStation users should start referring to ...
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7 Dec 2005
NORTH POLE, ARCTIC CIRCLE — Every year, due to a special licensing agreement between Axiom and Santa Claus' company, Holiday Spirit, Incorporated (HSI), MicroStation Today gets an exclusive, one-on-one interview with the jolly man in red. Usually the interview is held in a comfortable and gregarious environment, but this year, Santa Claus will be chatting with us from the unsightly confines of the North Pole ...
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7 Dec 2005
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom, the world's most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation software solutions, announces the release of
Microsoft Office Importer version 3.9.
Microsoft Office Importer enables MicroStation users to import and link nearly unlimited quantities of spreadsheet and word processing data into MicroStation with ease, formatting and reliability. On a test conducted,
Microsoft Office Importer had no problem pasting a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet ...
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7 Nov 2005
Tales from the Axiom Technical Support desk
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
FileFixer has long been the undisputed champion against design file corruption. Since design file corruption is not something associated with any particular version of MicroStation, there are always new issues that come up that prevent MicroStation users from completing tasks they need to complete or make it harder for them to meet pressing project deadlines. ...
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7 Nov 2005
By Mike Arroyo, Axiom Product Manager
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Naming something allows us to easily identify it from others. Such is the case with people, animals and computer files. By having a clear and unique name associated with an object, we can identify it better and even recall it faster. Naming things makes it easier to recognize its purpose and function.
What if specific MicroStation ...
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7 Nov 2005
By Chris Borales, Axiom Product Manager
Recently, I had an opportunity to lend a hand to our technical support team. They received an e-mail from a customer asking for a solution to a problem. The problem went something like this: "I have a project that consists of about 150 design files. Each design file has a title block. What I have to do is find ...
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7 Oct 2005
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom wants to help you migrate your projects to MicroStation V8.
The world's most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation software solutions, has devoted the past four years to the resolution of V8 migration barriers for MicroStation sites around the globe — and Axiom wants to share its hard-won corporate experience with its clients and all MicroStation Today readers.
Read on to learn (painlessly) ...
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