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7 Feb 2008
By David McDaniel
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Just as the famous starship, the USS Enterprise, represented the pinnacle of man's advances in space travel, so too does Axiom's
LearningBay Enterprise represent a technological peak. Companies can now train dozens, hundreds, even thousands of employees easily online - anywhere, anytime.
What does LearningBay Enterprise have in common with this starship?
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7 Feb 2008
SpecChecker and RuleManager work together to make life easy.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — The biggest barrier to getting started with automatic standards enforcement is telling
SpecChecker what your standards are. With
RuleManager, a tool included for free with every copy of
SpecChecker, even that barrier is easily surmounted.
SpecChecker uses rules files to make sure your design files meet your standards. Rules files are text files that ...
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7 Feb 2008
RefMerge will do the job fast and accurately.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Let's face it, whenever CAD files leave the CAD department or project design environment, there is no telling how they might ultimately look when opened or plotted by the people who need them for the construction or engineering information they contain. A single missing reference file - or worse, the wrong version of a ...
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7 Jan 2008
By Steve Palmer
Clearwater, Florida, USA — It's almost midnight. You are wrapping up a project submittal for an important client. MicroStation keeps crashing when you attempt to open a vital project design file. The necessity for a
FileFixer midnight miracle is abundantly real to you right now. Just press
FileFixer's <Start> button and you're back to work in three minutes.
But
FileFixer's midnight miracles, ...
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7 Jan 2008
Custom MicroStation tools speed production.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Day one, 10:15am: The phone rings. An Axiom MicroStation Consultant answers, "Yes, yes, I see." He begins to write on a sheet of paper. "What exactly do you want the application to do? Okay, and how should it work? Right, what are the inputs to the process? What are the outputs? How do you want the user ...
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7 Jan 2008
By David McDaniel
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom now gives CAD users the ability to train on Bentley PowerCivil and GEOPAK Criteria at their own pace and on their own schedule. What makes this possible is Axiom's new online training libraries for Bentley PowerCivil and GEOPAK Criteria. And you don't even need a copy of GEOPAK or MicroStation on your computer.
Bentley PowerCivil Essentials
Bentley PowerCivil Essentials ...
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7 Jan 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — As product manager for
Microsoft Office Importer, I recently spoke with a number of
Microsoft Office Importer users about what, if anything, they needed from
Microsoft Office Importer that it didn't already do or that it could do better. I wanted to know how we could make it even better for them than it already is. Not surprisingly - to me ...
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21 Dec 2007
One of the problems that MicroStation users face is that MicroStation's LiveLinks software often does not automatically update spreadsheet or word processing data when a MicroStation file is opened. The data is not automatically updated even though the spreadsheet or word processing file has been modified and saved after the import. In addition, the links created with LiveLinks, if later unlinked, tend to create ...
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7 Dec 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — 'Tis the season for new CAD training courses at Axiom. The month of December will see even more new training options under the tree. October brought a flurry of activity at the
LearningBay workshop, leading to the big release in November of the much-anticipated InRoads Essentials courses for both MicroStation and AutoCAD. While that was underway, Axiom's content development elves were ...
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7 Dec 2007
By Rick Sewell
Clearwater, Florida, USA —
Title Block Manager was conceived on the notion that CAD shops need and want the capability to modify their title block information in batch.
At first, it seemed kind of easy: "We'll start by making this cool application that allows you to create a specialized title block and assign database connectivity to it. Then all you have to do ...
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