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28 Dec 2011
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom, one of the world's most experienced developers of time-saving CAD software products, announces the release of
Translation Manager 2.0. This release adds many new features and enhancements that help eliminate the hassles normally associated with translating files between MicroStation V7 or V8 and AutoCAD DWG or DXF. "In addition to several other added features, this new version ...
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12 Oct 2011
Works with Word, too!
By Eiren Smith
Have you ever suffered from the myriad shortcomings which plague MicroStation's "Paste Special" command? If you've ever tried to get a tall Excel or Word paste into a short space, you know the kind of problems I'm talking about. In fact, in talking with our customers, we found that one of the tasks that people were taking the longest time ...
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11 Oct 2011
Change the actual raster reference file, not just the way it displays in one DGN file.
By Eiren Smith
Do you have crooked raster reference files of scanned drawings? Do you find yourself rotating the same raster reference file in MicroStation every time you attach that raster file to another DGN file? MicroStation's Raster Manager doesn't change the actual raster file, it just changes how it displays ...
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11 Oct 2011
By Rick Sewell, Axiom Director of Customer Services
Rick Sewell, Axiom Director of Customer Services, has been helping CAD users with their MicroStation problems for over a decade.
Rejected! You know the feeling. It's the one that washes away any sense of satisfaction you might have had when you completed and submitted that ...
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18 Jul 2011
Tired of searching around for cells?
By Rick DeWitt
You're in charge of getting everybody on your company's latest engineering design project up to speed and productive. The customer has supplied you with the cell library, seed files and standards that have to be followed. You open the V8 cell library and discover that there are over three hundred cells and they all use the old, cryptic, ...
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18 Jul 2011
Easily edit color, grayscale or monochrome raster images from within MicroStation.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom, one of the world's most experienced developers of time-saving CAD software products, announces the release of a version of its popular MicroStation raster reference file editing tool,
RasterDgn, for Bentley's PowerDraft V8i. Previously,
RasterDgn was only available for use with MicroStation.
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19 Apr 2011
New feature allows Excel and Word data to be flowed into columns.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom, the world's largest third-party software developer dedicated to making MicroStation easier, announces a new feature in the latest release of
Microsoft Office Importer called "column flow" which creates and automatically correctly sizes columns on-the-fly, when importing Word and Excel data.
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26 Oct 2010
CellManager can help you fix them right now!
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Have you ever wanted to set up a new cell library composed of certain cells that are presently located in three or four (or more) cell libraries in various locations all over your network?
CellManager allows you to easily manipulate multiple cell libraries at the same time. With
CellManager, you can view, sort, filter, ...
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31 Aug 2010
Previously released for MicroStation, CadExplorer™ now supports AutoCAD drawing files too, which allows users to find virtually any type of DWG file object across multiple files.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom, the world's most experienced third-party developer of products that make MicroStation easier, announces the release of
CadExplorer version 4.0. Previously released for MicroStation,
CadExplorer now supports AutoCAD DWG files. With the new
CadExplorer, users can ...
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15 Jun 2010
Tips for translating files between MicroStation and AutoCAD
By Rick DeWitt
The list of problems that come from translations is so long it almost defies belief. How do you fix or prevent the messes that occur when translating CAD files from AutoCAD to MicroStation? First, I'm going to identify some of the major problems that occur and then go over some solutions to prevent or fix them.
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