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7 Apr 2007
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
Since I am in the Axiom Support Department, I hear many common issues that people have. One frequent topic is the Axiom pull-down menu. How to display only the products that the designers use is one of the queries that I run into again and again.
Sample of the Axiom pull-down menu in MicroStation V8
I am ...
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7 Mar 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — "HELP ME! I can't open my V8 file with MicroStation!" Axiom's support team hears this plea all too often. They receive more calls about V8 design file corruption than V7 design file corruption.
MicroStation attempts to abort gracefully after opening a corrupted V8 file.
MicroStation V8 users report models which they can't activate. They also report elements ...
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7 Mar 2007
Letter to the Editor: Scottish-born CAD professional shares his views on the shortage of CAD users.
Dear Editor,
I am a product of the industrial base that was Glasgow, Scotland. I served my time in John Brown’s Shipyard as a draftsman. At the end of the school term, the gates would open and the shipyard and engineering works would open their gates and suck us all in. ...
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7 Feb 2007
Inventive software release handles huge time-consuming MicroStation task with a few mouse clicks.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Having to modify tag or dimension text in multiple design files is near the top of the list of most painful MicroStation tasks.
Global File Changer's Element Selection feature can isolate any combination of elements or symbology, giving users total control over batch modifications.
Say you ...
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7 Feb 2007
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom, the world's most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation software solutions, announces the release of
RefManager for V8 version 8.4a.
RefManager allows users to manipulate, debug, organize and control MicroStation reference file attachments in bulk.
Google SketchUp model of the Bank of America building in Saint Petersburg, Flori
now supports Google SketchUp reference file attachments, ...
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7 Feb 2007
By Reverend Bethel Chapman, Design Manager, Valero Paulsboro Refinery and Pastor, CornerStone Pentecostal Assembly
PAULSBORO, NEW JERSEY, USA — One afternoon, I was using
FileFixer to repair ten MicroStation design files with problems such as "end of file missing", nested cell corruption and a number of other various problems. I thought to myself — if only I had this tool in my church, what ...
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7 Jan 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — This time of year, many articles about New Year's resolutions will appear. You'll see headlines like, "How to Quit Smoking", "How to Lose Weight" and "How to Get Out of Debt". This article is no different.
This New Year's resolution article is about DgnQuickPick and how it can save you time.
While I can't promise that after reading ...
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7 Jan 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Behind the release of each new product or new product version, there is a big scoop of customer-requested enhancements.
SpecChecker and
SpecMonitor are no exception. We constantly enhance
SpecChecker — which detects CAD standards violations in sets of design files — and its brother,
SpecMonitor — which runs in the background until a user violates the current CAD standards — to ...
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7 Jan 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — How many software applications continue to be demanded and widely used around the planet after twenty years? It has been more than twenty years since Axiom has been selling software to manage reference file attachments in design files.
RefManager continues to be one of the most demanded components of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit.
In this article we reveal the factors behind
RefManager's unrivaled ...
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7 Jan 2007
By Rick Sewell, Director of Customer Services and Support
Many CAD Managers install Axiom products on a network. One concern that is shared among them is that their users (using the same product on the network) may overwrite each other's settings files. This can be undesirable, especially when the users are working on different projects that require different settings. To avoid this, you can use ...
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