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7 Sep 2005
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — The beginning of a project is the starting line, and everyone intends to get to the finish line without any delays. The deadlines have been set, so now it's time to start the race. Engines rev, the light turns green, tires squeal and you're off! Now the finish line is within your reach! However, with a project deadline rapidly approaching, roadblocks ...
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14 Aug 2005
Toolkit owners with active maintenance to receive new application at no charge.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — As part of their ongoing effort to continually provide greater and greater value to their customers, Axiom announces that its
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit, the most comprehensive package of MicroStation time-saving tools, has been further expanded by the addition of
SpecMonitor. The purpose of
SpecMonitor is to automate quality control by ...
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7 Aug 2005
"My dream since I was eight was to work at the Space Center," states Terry Jackson, the sun-tanned Senior Drafter for Space Gateway Support in Cape Canaveral, Florida. He started out in drafting about 30 years ago, straight out of high school. He confesses that "it was the only thing I ever wanted to do." Since the debut of CAD onto the drafting world, Terry ...
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7 Aug 2005
This month, we are going to learn about the "Multi-line Joints" tool box.
Joints are simply intersections of multi-lines. Multi-lines are sets of two or more parallel lines treated as a single object, commonly used for drawing walls in floor plans.
At first glance, the Multi-line Joints tools dialog box can be a bit intimidating. Accessed through Tools | Multi-Joints, it provides you with easy ways to ...
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7 Jul 2005
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom's software development team continuously enhances the component applications in
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit. This article highlights a few of the new time-saving features recently received by all
Toolkit maintenance holders at no additional charge.
FileFixer for V8
FileFixer for V8 is the most "user-developed" component of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for obvious reasons. An ever-increasing number of client sites are migrating to V8 and ...
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7 Jun 2005
Axiom releases the first ever e-learning GEOPAK training courses.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Where do you go for GEOPAK training? Unfortunately, the only choice for participating in any GEOPAK training usually requires a flight, hotel and per-diems to the nearest instructor-led class. That is, until now! Axiom, the leader in developing time-saving software for MicroStation, is announcing the first ever GEOPAK series of e-learning courses for ...
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7 Jun 2005
By Chris Borales, Product Manager for Axiom
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — MicroStation portals are filled with users wanting to find an easy, efficient method for importing Excel spreadsheets and Word documents into their design files. As a result, these portals are filled with just as many answers from other frustrated users.
In desperate attempts to import spreadsheet data, I have heard tales of users implementing backbreaking, ...
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7 Jun 2005
By Dennis J. Primeaux of Baskerville & Donovan Engineers in Daphne, Alabama.
We purchased our first Axiom product —
Microsoft Office Importer — in the last year on the recommendation of an engineer who came on board from another company. His company had used
Microsoft Office Importer extensively for a couple of years and they had been very impressed with its capability.
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7 Jun 2005
A long time ago, in a design firm not too far away, toiled away a lonely designer. After laboring for days on this one submittal, he checks his watch "11:23pm", sighs and closes his MicroStation. The next morning, he comes in to work hoping to pick up where he left off and be done with this revision. His boss greets him on the way to ...
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7 May 2005
Reduce stress and increase profits with MicroStation Productivity Toolkit.
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — All
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit applications are designed to fulfill the following purposes: To save you time. To save you money and increase your profit. To make your job easier. To increase project quality. To reduce project stress. To give you back your evenings and weekends.

The most reported benefits
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