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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA —Translation is almost always a painful subject for several valid reasons. AutoCAD and MicroStation do a lot of important things differently. Because of those differences, users of the two different CAD packages almost always organize projects and implement CAD standards in different ways. This means that when a project created using MicroStation and its drafting methodology has to be submitted to a ...
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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — I came across this story rather by accident. I was sifting through the garbage outside of Axiom when a scrap of paper caught my eye. Scribbled across the top was the phrase "Code name: Salamander — knck ms users scks off." I knew where it came from, but what did it mean? What was Axiom planning?
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7 Jun 2008
Baltamore, Maryland, USA — How do you ensure excellent infrastructure? What is the real secret behind it? What "infrastructure" underlies all excellent infrastructure?
That infrastructure has always played a critical role in every society's ability to survive is obvious. It's the full and wide-ranging effects that infrastructure has on a society that are often grossly underestimated. Roads, bridges, aqueducts, rail lines, modern utilities, airports — imagine ...
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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Maybe you've heard stories of Axiom's time-saving MicroStation utilities salvaging the "unsalvageable" design file, or completing 200 man-hours of work in a matter of minutes.
Making MicroStation work easier, faster and more efficiently puts more money in the bank and more time in your weekend. Isn't that where they belong?
Now it's time to hear it straight ...
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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — The default installation of MicroStation has nine pull-down menus containing way over 100 menu items. That's not counting a couple dozen submenus on these same menus that contain another 100-plus menu items. Clearly MicroStation has no shortage of available options. And every one of them is necessary in order to accommodate the many and varying ways that companies use MicroStation.
But the ...
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1 Jun 2008
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7 May 2008
MicroStation users overcome fearsome productivity barriers!
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Have you ever encountered a situation that made you want to send an SOS?
- You're in the trenches. 250 design files and their reference files must be submitted tomorrow and you notice all the links to the reference file attachments are broken.
- You think you are done and notice that your client's company name is misspelled in 300
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7 May 2008
Create a standalone design file by copying each external reference file to its own model in the master design file.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom recently announced a new release of
RefMerge for V8. This latest release adds an optional merging method that leverages the ability of MicroStation V8 to store any number of design and sheet models within a single design file. Now, with
RefMerge ...
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7 May 2008
"3D, 4D, BIM, Artificial intelligence, voice activation, file sharing? What is the next big thing? What do you think? Write and let me know." — Editor
"There should ideally be only one file, which can be accessed by all, rather than having multiple copies that are held on local area networks, CDs, e-mail, local C: drives, etc."
Gerard Hall, CAD Manager
"Object-oriented design is obviously the next big ...
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7 May 2008
RasEdit — Raster reference file editor for MicroStation
By Eiren Smith
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom, the world's most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation solutions, announces the acquisition of the popular MicroStation raster reference file editor,
RasEdit, from Mill Creek Systems of Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Axiom will take over all support for existing
RasEdit customers and also plans to continue to improve the product.
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