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7 Jun 2004
KEMPTVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA — Jim Lewis, CAD Manager for Canadian mapping company KMD Mapping Inc., was concerned about the rejection rate of his design team's MicroStation deliverables. Looking for a solution that would save his team time and KMD money, Mr. Lewis reviewed several products and selected
SpecChecker — Axiom's premier MicroStation quality assurance solution.
MicroStation Today interviewed Mr. Lewis about his quality assurance plights ...
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7 Jun 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom, the world's largest independent provider of general-purpose MicroStation utilities, announces the release of
Problem Element Viewer for V8 (
Problem Element Viewer 8.1). Originally developed to display the problematic and corrupt elements listed in the reports generated by
FileFixer, Problem Element Viewer for V8's expanded functionality allows users to zoom in on any element knowing only its element ID, element position ...
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7 Jun 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom announced the release of a new version of
CellManager for V8. CellManager 8.1 modifies text strings in cells in batch throughout cell libraries in MicroStation V8. Modifications can be restricted based on level, color, weight, style, cell name and other element characteristics. In addition,
CellManager 8.1 can display more information about cells than prior releases when cataloging libraries via its ...
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7 Jun 2004
Did you know that you can move the active view of your design either up, down, left or right by using function keys? You can by defining four function keys with the "move" key-in.
First, open the "Function Keys" dialog box under the Workspace menu.
Then, assign the following key-ins to your desired function keys:
To move up: move up;dx=0
To move down: move ...
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15 May 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Convinced that the MicroStation community needs a simple-to-use system for maintaining title block standards, coupled with a batch reporting and updating ability, Axiom recently announced the newest release of its latest V7 tool,
Title Block Manager version 1.1.
With
Title Block Manager, users can create title block cells that adhere to their CAD standards and easily place the cells in their MicroStation ...
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7 May 2004
Learn how you too can get more work done faster in V8.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — MicroStation V8 is the most robust MicroStation platform developed to date. Yet, it does not offer the capabilities to automate many of the repetitive and time-consuming tasks that many MicroStation shops must do in order to keep up with everyday productivity demands (things like fixing batches of problematic design files, ...
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7 May 2004
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, USA — Since 1998, Odell Associates has saved an average of 4,800 man-hours each year by using
FileFixer, a component of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit. Below is what CAD Manager Dale Hynes had to say about how
FileFixer and
CellManager, another component of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit, save his team time:
Dale: "I've used
FileFixer more times than I can remember. It's important to ...
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7 May 2004
By Ivan Pena
According to Ralph Grabowski's CAD Manager's Guidebook, CAD drafters spend about 50% of their day working on other things than drafting, like word processing and working with spreadsheets. These spreadsheets are used to make area calculations, balance budgets and work out bills of materials (BOM), schedules and quantities sheets. In the case of BOMs and quantities sheets, this data is often pasted ...
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7 May 2004
By Larry Shields, Graphics Designer at Stanley Consultants in Muscatine, Iowa
If there is a particular area in a design file that you want so see as a reference file, then go into the file you will attach, zoom in to the area you want to see and save that view by using the key in "sv=(name of saved view)". Be sure to include the ...
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7 Apr 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — You may have corrupt design files and cell libraries and not even know it. That's the word from Axiom. According to Steve Palmer, Axiom's Product Manager for
FileFixer, "We thought everyone knew that the cause of MicroStation difficulties is typically corrupt design files or cell libraries. We figured with the tremendous demand for
FileFixer that this was broadly known throughout the ...
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