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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA —Translation is almost always a painful subject for several valid reasons. AutoCAD and MicroStation do a lot of important things differently. Because of those differences, users of the two different CAD packages almost always organize projects and implement CAD standards in different ways. This means that when a project created using MicroStation and its drafting methodology has to be submitted to a ...
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7 Jun 2008
Baltamore, Maryland, USA — How do you ensure excellent infrastructure? What is the real secret behind it? What "infrastructure" underlies all excellent infrastructure?
That infrastructure has always played a critical role in every society's ability to survive is obvious. It's the full and wide-ranging effects that infrastructure has on a society that are often grossly underestimated. Roads, bridges, aqueducts, rail lines, modern utilities, airports — imagine ...
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7 May 2008
Axiom releases first online AutoCAD training series
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom announces a major addition to its LearningBay suite of e-learning courses — the AutoCAD vBook series. vBooks are short, topic-specific reference guides that are designed to get someone up-to-speed on any subject quickly. vBooks are much like traditional books in the printed world, but with some important additions and advantages. vBooks are accessed through ...
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7 Nov 2007
Axiom and Mark Ditko team up to release InRoads e-learning courses.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom announces the release of the first-ever browser-based InRoads training courses. InRoads is a civil engineering package for both MicroStation and AutoCAD, which is used by about half of the Departments of Transportation in the United States, as well as numerous engineering firms for site and road design. As part of ...
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7 Nov 2007
Kansas City, Missouri, USA — When
MicroStation Today caught up with Frank Nelson at the Mid-Continent MicroStation Community (MCMC) summer conference in Kansas City, he was swamped. In addition to his busy life as project manager for Burns & McDonnell, he also volunteers as a vendor coordinator for the MCMC and just had a grandson.
Frank Nelson would like to
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7 Sep 2007
Find out how fast LearningBay Professional is now.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Axiom, the world's largest provider of browser-based training courses for Bentley products, announces the release of the new
LearningBay Professional. Now powered by an Oracle 10g Express Edition database,
LearningBay Professional pushes the envelope of LMS (Learning Management System) performance and delivers training faster - up to 80% faster when executing actions like importing ...
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7 Dec 2004
MicroStation V8 2004 has certainly made dealing with AutoCAD files much less complex than it used to be. However, there are still some important things to understand in order achieve the results you expect when translating files between the two applications. In this expanded tip, we will cover how to access and change the necessary settings to correctly translate DGNs to AutoCAD and DWGs to ...
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7 Oct 2004
TARRAGONA, SPAIN — This month,
MicroStation Today will whisk you away from your workstation and take you to the Mediterranean paradise of Tarragona, Spain to introduce you to Francisco Laboria-Valles, CAD administrator for BASF Española. An avid fisherman, traveler and movie aficionado, Francisco appreciates anything that allows him more time for his hobbies. Below he shares some of his secrets on how he manages to ...
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7 Jun 2004
CAD managers share real-world FileFixer experiences.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — "I always considered
FileFixer one of those magical products," proclaims Ray Danley, CAD Manager for Washington Infrastructure Services. "You just hit a button and whatever is wrong goes away."

Why is FileFixer a topic of interest among MicroStation users around the world? Because no better preventive or curative solution to design file
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