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7 Sep 2007
Perth, Western Australia, Australia — CAD Administrator Colin Asplin, of Perth, Western Australia, loves a challenge. Whether it's paragliding, video editing or re-mapping hundreds of design files, he's willing to take the jump. He took some time away from his job at Thyssenkrupp Engineering Australia (TKEA), and paragliding, to give us a rundown of what's happening down under
In one afternoon,
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7 Aug 2007
New features allow you to make bulk changes to design file settings — hundreds of files at a time.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Has this ever happened to you? You are collaborating on a project and the work you get from your collaborator contains different working units, a different global origin or other differences in design file settings from the work you yourself have done. Is ...
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7 Aug 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Recently, the world's largest oil producer, Saudi Aramco, asked Axiom to design and develop a customized utility that would aid in the standardization of their MicroStation V7 design files. Their official request was to, "develop a tool that reformats existing design files into a more structured layout."
The Saudi Aramco project was the most recent in a
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7 Aug 2007
Customer-driven enhancements in every Axiom product release
Clearwater, Florida, USA — It's no surprise that the world's most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation software solutions is also the most responsive to customer requests.
Despite being the oldest and largest third-party solutions provider for MicroStation internationally, Axiom remains spectacularly youthful and agile. Axiom's developers have completed more than 150 customer-driven application releases in the last year alone — ...
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17 Jul 2007
By Eiren K. Smith, Product Manager
Clearwater, Florida, USA — As a result of the trend toward larger, more complex CAD standards, Axiom has released a new version of
SpecChecker. SpecChecker can now handle very large rules files and even does so using far less memory than previous versions. It can load these rules files faster than ever before, thereby reducing processing time.
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7 Jul 2007
Effortlessly manipulate multiple cell libraries as if they were one.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom's new release of
CellManager for V8 is by far the most feature-rich advance in the application's 20 year history — truly a quantum leap forward for all of you cell lovers.
One of the most significant enhancements in this release is
CellManager's new ability to open and manipulate all of your cell ...
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7 Jul 2007
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA —Greg Hruby, CAD Manager for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT), is focused on keeping users productive. Sometimes making that happen requires extraordinary effort. We asked Greg about one of those times.
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7 Jul 2007
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
Global File Changer is exactly what it sounds like. This thing can bulk modify just about anything in multiple design files and fast. It is my personal favorite Axiom product due to its amazing versatility.
While it is true that
Global File Changer is incredibly multifaceted, the single most utilized feature by far is its ability to bulk modify text.
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7 Jul 2007
Keep your projects on schedule. (Time travel not necessary.)
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Any long-time MicroStation veteran has encountered their share of corrupted V7 design files. As you migrate to MicroStation V8, get ready to teleport into the expanding universe of V8 file corruption — complete with previously unseen alien categories of V8 file corruption.
Ah, the simple life - V7 elements
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7 Jun 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA —It's summertime here in Florida and that often means sweltering temperatures, long lines at Disney World and bad tan lines. Rather than venture outdoors, I find myself sorting through my e-mail inbox to see what users are saying about using
Microsoft Office Importer. Just so you know,
Microsoft Office Importer is Axiom's most popular utility in terms of total number of users, ...
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