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7 Mar 2006
How Axiom researches emerging types of V8 file corruption
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Regardless of the cause of design file damage
— a power fluctuation, a network glitch, an unreliable hard drive, an amateur software developer, an act of God or an act of Bill Gates
— customer reports to Axiom Technical Support confirm week after week that design file corruption does impact MicroStation projects, and ...
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7 Mar 2006
In a recent thread on the Bentley newsgroups, we came across some confusion about the differences between an International Foot and a U.S. Survey Foot. We thought it would be fun to shed some light on what these "feet" are and how much measurements would deviate due to the difference in unit length.
History
According to the National Institute of Standards ...
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7 Mar 2006
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, USA — Recently,
MicroStation Today had the opportunity to speak with Mark Chase from AZTEC in Phoenix, Arizona about how he and his group of talented engineers streamline their projects with
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit. Here's what Mark had to say about his career, some of the projects he has worked on and how he uses Axiom utilities to obtain maximum results for AZTEC ...
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7 Mar 2006
What do you do if your cell libraries do not comply with your client's CAD submission standards? What do you do when your cell libraries become so bloated that it's hard to find the cells you need? Instead of investing your time and resources in recreating or modifying cell libraries manually, why not save yourself hours of wasted production time by using
CellManager to easily ...
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7 Feb 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Do you have to have multiple sessions of MicroStation open just to view multiple design files?
DgnQuickPick is a MicroStation add-on that allows users to have immediate access to multiple project design files in a single session of MicroStation, by only clicking on a tab labeled with the file's name.
DgnQuickPick reduces design time and frustration for all those users who ...
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7 Feb 2006
COLLINSVILLE, ILLINOIS, USA — This month MicroStation Today had the chance to catch up with Marcus McConachie, the Engineering Applications Specialist for the Illinois Department of Transportation. Not only did we find out that Marcus has a lot of love for his family and the St. Louis Cardinals, but that he also has quite an affinity for Axiom utilities.

Marcus
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7 Feb 2006
SpecMonitor, DgnCompare and Duplicate Element Remover added to MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V8.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V8's value has been increased by the addition of three newly-released V8 utilities:
SpecMonitor, DgnCompare and
Duplicate Element Remover. These staples of the V7 version of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit are finally taking their position in the V8 world.
Perfect CAD standards with SpecMonitor for V8
"SpecMonitor ensures ...
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7 Feb 2006
By Eiren Smith, Axiom Product Manager
Global File Changer is Axiom's tool for making global changes to multiple design files. In addition to providing a flexible framework from which users can execute almost any imaginable task operation on multiple design files,
Global File Changer contains its own arsenal of custom commands. These custom commands, built from years of feedback from MicroStation users of all types, ...
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7 Jan 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom announces the release of the first ever GEOPAK library of computer-based courses,
GEOPAK Beginning Road. The
GEOPAK Beginning Road library consists of a series of five courses:
Introduction to Digital Terrain Modeling, Advanced Digital Terrain Modeling, Project Manager for Road, Existing Ground Cross Section and Introduction to Coordinate Geometry.
The
GEOPAK Beginning Road library is the ...
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7 Jan 2006
With V8, Bentley introduced MicroStation users to the concept of models. Whereas a V7 design file used to be one single design space, a V8 design file is a container of models, each of which behaves much like a separate design file. You can create an unlimited number of models in a DGN file.
There are two types of models: design or sheet. Design models can ...
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