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7 Sep 2008
Excel charts and MicroStation, linked at last!
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Summertime is always full of blockbuster movie releases. From May through August, Hollywood floods the world with the latest and greatest action-packed, explosion-filled, super-hero extravaganzas. The product development staff here at Axiom shares the same "summer blockbuster" mentality when it comes to product releases.
Microsoft Office Importer is the latest release to grace Axiom's red ...
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7 Sep 2008
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Large MicroStation projects tend to be broken up into multiple design files by discipline. You might have one set of designers working on plumbing, another set on electrical and so on. Then, a corresponding file from each discipline is referenced to a master file to complete the picture for that one set of files. Of course, ...
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7 Aug 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA —
John opened design file number 157 to give it one last check for errors before sending it off to his customer. He checks the title block data… seems fine. Borders? Check. Global Origin? Check. Proper views turned on? Check. Looking good … wait a sec. What's this?
Something about the font in the title block catches ...
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7 Aug 2008
InRoads by Example eliminates frustration.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Most InRoads users are aware of the vast array of settings, options and tools available in InRoads. While this large arsenal of variables is greatly responsible for InRoads' incredible power, it also makes the software extremely complex. Figuring out the fastest or most-efficient way to do something in InRoads can be a frustrating task. In fact, there ...
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7 Jul 2008
Baltimore, Maryland, USA — As always, Axiom attended the annual BE conference for 2008. We managed to shoot a few pictures between the tradeshow activities and thought we should share them with you! For many more photos from Baltimore, visit
http://AxiomInt.com/BE2008Pictures.htm You might even see a friend of yours!
The lotto scratch-offs
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7 Jul 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — The upgrade from MicroStation V8.5 to MicroStation XM came with a lot of enhancements. This article covers only what changed in the “Main” toolbar.
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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — I came across this story rather by accident. I was sifting through the garbage outside of Axiom when a scrap of paper caught my eye. Scribbled across the top was the phrase "Code name: Salamander — knck ms users scks off." I knew where it came from, but what did it mean? What was Axiom planning?
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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Maybe you've heard stories of Axiom's time-saving MicroStation utilities salvaging the "unsalvageable" design file, or completing 200 man-hours of work in a matter of minutes.
Making MicroStation work easier, faster and more efficiently puts more money in the bank and more time in your weekend. Isn't that where they belong?
Now it's time to hear it straight ...
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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — The default installation of MicroStation has nine pull-down menus containing way over 100 menu items. That's not counting a couple dozen submenus on these same menus that contain another 100-plus menu items. Clearly MicroStation has no shortage of available options. And every one of them is necessary in order to accommodate the many and varying ways that companies use MicroStation.
But the ...
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7 May 2008
MicroStation users overcome fearsome productivity barriers!
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Have you ever encountered a situation that made you want to send an SOS?
- You're in the trenches. 250 design files and their reference files must be submitted tomorrow and you notice all the links to the reference file attachments are broken.
- You think you are done and notice that your client's company name is misspelled in 300
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