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7 Sep 2004
KOKOMO, INDIANA, USA — Do you have a Delphi XM satellite radio in your car? Or maybe you are one of the hundreds of thousands of motorists whose life has been saved by an air bag? If so, then you are already familiar with Delphi Corporation, a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of automobile electronics and safety devices.
Bob Corwin,
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7 Sep 2004
By Eiren Smith, Vice President for Technology
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — As the Product Manager for Axiom's quality assurance tools
SpecChecker,
SpecMonitor and
RuleManager, customers regularly ask me what's new. The answer is always "Plenty!"
RuleManager for V8 can extract a set of CAD standards to be used with Axiom’s quality assurance tools from an existing design file quickly and automatically.
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7 Sep 2004
Although a graphical interface is great for many things, sometimes it's faster to use two-letter MicroStation key-ins to adjust settings. For example, to set the active scale to 2.0, you can simply type "as=2" in the key-in browser. MicroStation has quite an extensive list of these two-letter key-ins for setting all manner of things from the active level and color, which just about everyone is ...
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7 Aug 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom recently re-leased a new version of
Title Block Manager which extracts and updates title block information stored in MicroStation tag elements. This recent enhancement was added due to a large number of customer requests.
Title Block Manager brings about consistency of the data stored in title blocks by automating batch modifications of this data throughout MicroStation design projects.
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7 Aug 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — As robust MicroStation V8 becomes the standard for more and more MicroStation shops each day, users are encountering different problems that they did not encounter in previous versions.
Why are your V8 design files behaving oddly? Why can't you select certain models? FileFixer for V8 is the solution to problematic files in MicroStation V8.
Each MicroStation V8 ...
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7 Aug 2004
An interview with Mark Ditko, InRoads guru
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA — As a part of
MicroStation Today’s crusade to help the MicroStation community find ways to increase productivity, this month we spotlight a MicroStation expert who specializes in Bentley’s civil engineering package. Say hello to Mark Ditko, InRoads guru.
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| Mark Ditko, InRoads guru |
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7 Jul 2004
Size really doesn't matter!
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — For a business to survive, its income must exceed the cost of doing business - this is true regardless of business size. Simple to say, but not always easy to accomplish.
Will Axiom tools save your small shop enough time to justify their cost? Contact Axiom to find out.
A profit-conscious CAD manager can't afford ...
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7 Jul 2004
In this article, you will learn how to install Axiom's MDL tools to a network. This saves time when carrying out a site- or company-wide installation of Axiom's tools, especially for sites where many MicroStation users will be using them. Also, this type of installation gives the CAD manager or IT department control over the usage of the software (like restricting who uses the each ...
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7 Jul 2004
Using function keys can speed up your workflow. Here is a way to use function keys. As a refresher for the rusty (or an introduction for the neophytes), the "Function Keys" dialog box is under the Workspace menu.
Once there, scroll down and find an available key. Then, click on <Edit> and try out this tip:
Reference files: Now you see them…now ...
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7 Jun 2004
CAD managers share real-world FileFixer experiences.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — "I always considered
FileFixer one of those magical products," proclaims Ray Danley, CAD Manager for Washington Infrastructure Services. "You just hit a button and whatever is wrong goes away."
Why is FileFixer a topic of interest among MicroStation users around the world? Because no better preventive or curative solution to design file
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