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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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7 Oct 2005
New FileFixer has new, easy-to-use file-selection interface that dramatically speeds up file selection for batch processing.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom announces the release of two new versions of their popular MicroStation utility,
FileFixer. FileFixer automatically repairs corrupt and faulty MicroStation files (including cell libraries). Versions 7.8k (for V7) and 8.6a (for V8) uphold
FileFixer's long tradition of design file corruption repair with multiple interface upgrades ...
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7 Oct 2005
A question we recently received was: "Is there a way to plot the lines in some reference files thinner, without changing the drawing and keep the other reference files the same?"
The easy way to handle this is to use Level Symbology. (The following directions are for MicroStation/J.)
- From the "Reference" dialog box, select the reference file you want to plot.
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7 Oct 2005
LONDON, ENGLAND — Famous for — among many other things — the BBC, Big Ben and the River Thames, London is where we caught up with this month's showcased MicroStation user — Steve Wright, an Associate at environmentally-minded United Kingdom engineering firm whitbybird. Steve kindly took time to share with
MicroStation Today his love of football (soccer) and how he kept on schedule for one ...
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7 Sep 2005
By Eiren Smith, Axiom's Director of Certification
The MicroStation world is going through big changes. Design files are getting bigger, level lists and cell names are getting longer and the design file format has undergone a deep overhaul with the increasing acceptance of the V8 generation. Added to all that, AutoCAD and V7 DGN files are being converted to the new V8 format on-the-fly without ...
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7 Sep 2005
BEAUMONT, TEXAS, USA — If you go east from Houston on Interstate 10, about two hours into your journey you'll come across the City of Beaumont. Beaumont is a city of about 114,000 people, and is a part of the area known as the "Golden Triangle" — an area of Southeast Texas rich in petroleum and natural gas bordered by Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange ...
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7 Sep 2005
From ControlAltDelete — www.penbrush.com
Question: Is there a way to adjust the transparency, say 50%, when I place Shape / Smartline or Create Region? Also, is it possible to print it out just as is without tweaking the pentable or anything?
Answer: If you are looking for filled shapes displaying on your screen with transparency, it is best to use a pen table with a RIP driver ...
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7 Sep 2005
Streamline V8 migration by incorporating Toolkit into your migration workflow.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — As V8 migration becomes a more realistic trek for the MicroStation community, it is important that you understand how reference files and cell libraries have changed since MicroStation J and how these old formats will behave in V8. Also, it is important for you to know about the time-saving utilities found in ...
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