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30 Dec 2009
Do you like doing the same thing, over and over, for hours on end?
Clearwater, Florida, USA — How do you handle the sheet numbers and sheet counts in title blocks after inserting a new sheet into a set? Do you edit the affected values in every title block in every sheet manually? While plodding through a set of design files, one at a time, typing ...
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30 Dec 2009
How to avoid losing on a MicroStation project that has overly complex CAD standards
By Rick DeWitt
I was talking to a CAD manager in the Washington, DC area the other day who seemed ready to collapse. He had been trying to get his designers to follow a client's CAD standard for a project and all of his designers were complaining because the standards were complex, cumbersome ...
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14 Oct 2009
Now with ProjectWise support
By Eiren Smith
Want to bring Excel spreadsheet or Word document information into MicroStation with perfect formatting and a link to the original Excel spreadsheet or Word document in case information in the spreadsheet or Word document changes in the future? Do you already use
Microsoft Office Importer but were frustrated because you couldn’t use it on ProjectWise projects?
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14 Oct 2009
So where is the fault and what can be done about it?
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Why is it V8 elements fall off the edge of the design plane? How is it possible a V8 element no longer resides on a defined level? Why is it certain elements or entire models can't be selected? Why can't MicroStation open some V8 files?
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9 Oct 2009
DgnCompare permits users to distinctly see the differences between any two MicroStation design files. The program shows the user which elements have been added, which elements have been deleted and which elements have had only their color, weight, style or level modified from the initial version of the MicroStation file.
The latest version of
DgnCompare was enhanced to work with MicroStation V8i. Additionally, the new release ...
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5 Aug 2009
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom, the most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation software solutions, announces the release of
CadExplorer version 2.0. The new release allows users to make batch modifications to text elements in multiple design files quickly and with the ability to preview changes in a spreadsheet-like view before committing them!
Now you can modify as much text
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5 Aug 2009
SpecChecker and RuleManager work together to make life easy.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Do you have a need to ensure that all your MicroStation files meet all your or your client’s CAD standards? Would you like to avoid the time it takes to manually proofread each design file? Whether the project standards changed after the project started or you need to correct an error or standards ...
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10 Jun 2009
CadExplorer displays your CAD data in spreadsheet-like views, making it easy to review the data. What can this do for you? Well the answer to that is contained in the article above — "New technology lets you analyze your MicroStation data in ways never before possible!" I recommend you read that article first, as it covers some of the amazing kinds of things this technology ...
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15 May 2009
By Eiren Smith
What do MicroStation users do if they want to easily import large spreadsheets and word processing data into their design files with perfect formatting? What if they want to maintain a link to the original spreadsheet so that if something changes in the spreadsheet, the design file can be easily — interactively or automatically — updated? What if they use ProjectWise?
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15 May 2009
Part two in a series of articles on the mysteries of global origin
By Rick Dewitt
Have you ever started a project and noticed that one or more reference files didn't seem to line up in your master files the way you expected or that the geometry you expected to be a particular size was too big or too small? In a previous issue of MicroStation Today, ...
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