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7 Dec 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Have you ever encountered:
- A "Tool not allowed" message?
- Models in which elements cannot be modified or added?
- Models that are "read only", but shouldn't be?
- Hidden levels?
- Hidden reference file attachments?
- Elements displayed with incorrect level symbology?
- Other odd design file behavior?
The majority of Axiom clients have now moved to MicroStation V8 or XM. Not surprisingly, the number of project-stopping, corrupted, V8 files reported to Axiom is ...
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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 Nov 2007
By Fredrick R. Kenniston III
Clearwater, Florida, USA — You hold your tongue as you say, "How many times do I have to tell you how to locate what library a certain cell is in?" to a somewhat bewildered co-worker. I know, you probably never get impatient, but this is the third time he has been back, almost begging you to tell him, again, how to ...
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7 Oct 2007
Confessions of a product manager
By Steve Palmer
Clearwater, Florida, USA — It's time to confess. We've been hiding the truth from MicroStation users since 1986. The most respected, widely used and well-known third-party application for MicroStation,
FileFixer, is misnamed. We goofed.
True,
FileFixer can repair files that cause MicroStation to abort and that MicroStation cannot open.
FileFixer can repair unselectable elements, unselectable models, missing level definitions ...
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7 Oct 2007
Castle Frankenstein, Transylvania — Scientist and inventor Dr. Victor Frankenstein rarely grants interviews, but recently he came out of seclusion to grant a very special interview to
MicroStation Today.
One of Dr. Frankenstein's goals is to design additions to his castle that look like they've been there for hundreds of years.
Tell us about yourself.
Dr. Frankenstein: I like to ...
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7 Oct 2007
By Rick Sewell
Almost everyone is doing it, upgrading their MicroStation V7 (95, SE and J) formatted files to V8. Whether project by project or all at once, the transition to V8 is on.
Every so often, a customer calls and asks whether Axiom has a tool to help automatically convert their V7 files to V8. Fortunately for customers, I can simply show the built-in Batch ...
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7 Aug 2007
Customer-driven enhancements in every Axiom product release
Clearwater, Florida, USA — It's no surprise that the world's most experienced developer of time-saving MicroStation software solutions is also the most responsive to customer requests.
Despite being the oldest and largest third-party solutions provider for MicroStation internationally, Axiom remains spectacularly youthful and agile. Axiom's developers have completed more than 150 customer-driven application releases in the last year alone — ...
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7 Jul 2007
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA —Greg Hruby, CAD Manager for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT), is focused on keeping users productive. Sometimes making that happen requires extraordinary effort. We asked Greg about one of those times.
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7 Jul 2007
Keep your projects on schedule. (Time travel not necessary.)
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Any long-time MicroStation veteran has encountered their share of corrupted V7 design files. As you migrate to MicroStation V8, get ready to teleport into the expanding universe of V8 file corruption — complete with previously unseen alien categories of V8 file corruption.
Ah, the simple life - V7 elements
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7 Jun 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Sometimes there's not enough time in the day to resolve MicroStation issues and get your design work done. That can mean working nights and weekends to make deadlines. That's bearable once in a while, but it's no way to live, is it? Well, in case you hadn't heard yet, there's a suite of software products specially designed to provide you ...
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