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7 Jun 2005
Axiom releases the first ever e-learning GEOPAK training courses.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Where do you go for GEOPAK training? Unfortunately, the only choice for participating in any GEOPAK training usually requires a flight, hotel and per-diems to the nearest instructor-led class. That is, until now! Axiom, the leader in developing time-saving software for MicroStation, is announcing the first ever GEOPAK series of e-learning courses for ...
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7 Jun 2005
By Chris Borales, Product Manager for Axiom
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — MicroStation portals are filled with users wanting to find an easy, efficient method for importing Excel spreadsheets and Word documents into their design files. As a result, these portals are filled with just as many answers from other frustrated users.
In desperate attempts to import spreadsheet data, I have heard tales of users implementing backbreaking, ...
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7 Jun 2005
By Dennis J. Primeaux of Baskerville & Donovan Engineers in Daphne, Alabama.
We purchased our first Axiom product —
Microsoft Office Importer — in the last year on the recommendation of an engineer who came on board from another company. His company had used
Microsoft Office Importer extensively for a couple of years and they had been very impressed with its capability.
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7 Jun 2005
A long time ago, in a design firm not too far away, toiled away a lonely designer. After laboring for days on this one submittal, he checks his watch "11:23pm", sighs and closes his MicroStation. The next morning, he comes in to work hoping to pick up where he left off and be done with this revision. His boss greets him on the way to ...
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7 May 2005
Reduce stress and increase profits with MicroStation Productivity Toolkit.
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — All
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit applications are designed to fulfill the following purposes: To save you time. To save you money and increase your profit. To make your job easier. To increase project quality. To reduce project stress. To give you back your evenings and weekends.

The most reported benefits
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7 Apr 2005
New version of title block management software now works on pre-existing MicroStation title blocks.
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — Users of Axiom's
Title Block Manager have always enjoyed fast, automatic updating of their title block information in multiple files at the same time. However, integrating pre-existing title blocks with the
Title Block Manager system was not an easy process. CAD shops often have thousands, sometimes hundreds of ...
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7 Apr 2005
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — This month's user spotlight comes from the entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas, Nevada. We'd like to introduce you to MicroStation user (and aspiring performer) Paul Villaluz.

Engineer, singer and actor Paul Villaluz.
MicroStation Today: Please tell us a bit about your background in the field.
Paul: I am an engineer in the design team for a soundwall ...
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7 Apr 2005
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — MicroStation V8 users are running into different problems than in earlier versions of MicroStation, mostly problems related to the new structure of the DGN file.
A V8 design file consists of multiple internal directories and sub-files. This data organization scheme, also used by Microsoft Word and Excel, is called "structured storage". Structured storage errors are one of the most serious, recurring V8-specific ...
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15 Mar 2005
Preventative steps to ensure a successful V7 to V8 migration.
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — Are you longing to work with MicroStation V8 but obligated to continue using V7 for the immediate future? If so, you are certainly not alone. Axiom continues to energetically support its large number of V7 clients and continues to enhance the V7 version of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit applications.
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7 Mar 2005
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — At first glance, Mike Arroyo may seem like a mild-mannered guy. But once this nicknamed "MicroStation Evangelist" gets on a roll, there is no one that can escape his enthusiasm. His zeal has converted droves of CAD shops to the MicroStation doctrine and his knowledge of MicroStation has shaped MicroStation-training courses for years. Now, his fervor will be redirected to helping ...
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