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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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7 Apr 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
SpecChecker is Axiom's wildly popular tool for automatically checking, reporting and correcting CAD standards. Since no two projects nor MicroStation shops are the same,
SpecChecker is designed to give the end-user the maximum amount of control over ensuring adherence to CAD standards, whether the end-user is the CAD manager, a full-time standards checker or the drafter himself.
So the question arises: When ...
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7 Apr 2004
HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA — Turner, Collie & Braden (TC&B) recently acquired a corporate license of Axiom's complete title block management solution for MicroStation,
Title Block Manager.
Title Block Manager gives users full control over modifying title block information throughout the entire MicroStation shop, by automating batch changes to title blocks and simplifying the modification and management of title block data.
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7 Apr 2004
By Steve Palmer, Axiom's Executive Product Manager
The SET RANGE key-in command is not documented, but is supported in all versions of MicroStation. This command displays element ranges on the screen. Below is an example of how elements look after keying the SET RANGE command and updating the desired view:
The SET RANGE command displays the range data that's ...
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7 Mar 2004
LAKEWOOD, COLORADO, USA — John Barone, President of Barone-Shultz, uses
CellManager — a popular component of Axiom's
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit — to save his clients money. Barone-Shultz is a CAD and IT services company based in Lakewood, Colorado that provides technical support and efficiency consulting for MicroStation and GEOPAK shops. John used
CellManager to speed up a part of a project that could have added ...
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7 Mar 2004
Infiniti showroom renovations stay on track.
ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA, USA — Dr. Rensis Likert, a scientist who studied organizational structure and the principles of leadership and management in the 1940s, said that, "the greater the loyalty towards the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals." Why ...
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