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11 Oct 2011
By Rick Sewell, Axiom Director of Customer Services
Rick Sewell, Axiom Director of Customer Services, has been helping CAD users with their MicroStation problems for over a decade.
Rejected! You know the feeling. It's the one that washes away any sense of satisfaction you might have had when you completed and submitted that ...
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9 Aug 2011
Scale bars can be added as a cell, a reference file or directly created in the design file. It is a full scale representation of actual size. It will scale up or down proportionally to whatever size image you create.
Since a scale bar reflects what a specific distance is within the JPEG image, a viewer can use a ruler and measure the size represented ...
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18 Jul 2011
By Rick DeWitt, Axiom Senior Product Manager
Have you ever had a situation where a project's CAD standards changed after the project started? Did you or your users spend hours — or days — manually updating design files because of it? Does your management appreciate under budget or high-profit projects? (Don't spend a lot of time on this last one, because I'm sure they do!)
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19 Apr 2011
By Rick Sewell, Axiom Director of Customer Services
How to Get MicroStation to Use Your Microsoft Word Dictionary
Don't you hate it when you have to keep adding words to your MicroStation dictionary that you've already added to your Microsoft Word dictionary?
Rick Sewell, Axiom Director of Customer Services, has been helping CAD users
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5 Jan 2011
By Rick Sewell, Axiom Director of Customer Services
Have you ever received a set of project files and found that all of the reference file levels you need to see have their display turned off? It's a pain to go through them all and manually turn on the appropriate levels. Luckily you don't have to.
RefManager can handle this in a few or hundreds or even ...
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26 Oct 2010
An Ounce of MicroStation File Corruption Prevention is Worth Two Rounds of Golf!
By Rick Sewell, Axiom Director of Customer Services
When design file corruption strikes, it can be anywhere from irritating to downright devastating. It has caused reduced profits, tainted reputations and loss of "fun time".
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31 Aug 2010
By Ed Mendoza, Axiom Learning Expert
Want to speed up your design work in V8i or XM? Try using these keyboard shortcuts.
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23 Jul 2010
Want a better way to edit your user's workspaces without having to wade through complex MicroStation configuration files just to find the variable definition you need to edit?
Axiom's
Global Workspace Manager allows CAD managers to set up, monitor and change MicroStation workspace configuration settings on multiple workstations from a single location!
Now, Global Workspace Manager 2.1 has an interface similar to MicroStation's "Workspace | Configuration | ...
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15 Jun 2010
By Abraham Rodriguez, CAD Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff
We recently upgraded to MicroStation V8i. As you know, with upgrades come lots of learning and troubleshooting. For the first month or so, we kept having to jump back and forth between MicroStation V8 2004 edition and V8i just to keep production moving until we figured out how to overcome the issues we were running into.
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23 Feb 2010
By Rick Sewell
Rejected! You know the feeling. It’s the one that washes away any feeling of satisfaction you might have had when you completed and submitted that last project. In looking over the reason the project was rejected, you find out that certain elements were put on the wrong level. In fact, all of the elements on “Electric-Main” shouldn’t be there and need to be ...
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