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7 Jun 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom, the world's largest independent provider of general-purpose MicroStation utilities, announces the release of
Problem Element Viewer for V8 (
Problem Element Viewer 8.1). Originally developed to display the problematic and corrupt elements listed in the reports generated by
FileFixer, Problem Element Viewer for V8's expanded functionality allows users to zoom in on any element knowing only its element ID, element position ...
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7 Jun 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom announced the release of a new version of
CellManager for V8. CellManager 8.1 modifies text strings in cells in batch throughout cell libraries in MicroStation V8. Modifications can be restricted based on level, color, weight, style, cell name and other element characteristics. In addition,
CellManager 8.1 can display more information about cells than prior releases when cataloging libraries via its ...
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15 May 2004
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Convinced that the MicroStation community needs a simple-to-use system for maintaining title block standards, coupled with a batch reporting and updating ability, Axiom recently announced the newest release of its latest V7 tool,
Title Block Manager version 1.1.
With
Title Block Manager, users can create title block cells that adhere to their CAD standards and easily place the cells in their MicroStation ...
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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 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 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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