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7 May 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — "When design file corruption brings your project to a halt, you don't have time to mess around. You need the file salvaged now! You need help. The newest release of
FileFixer gives you that help at a whole new level of speed and ease.

With FileFixer's new context-sensitive help options, users can search for
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7 May 2007
An interview with Engineering Specialist, Luis Sanchez
El Paso, Texas, USA — Luis Mario Sanchez III is an Engineering Specialist for Bain Medina Bain, a Texas engineering firm. In his 12-year career, he has dealt mostly with transportation infrastructure projects. Luis told us of one special project that he'll never forget.

Luis Sanchez, Engineering Specialist, at the Tower of the
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7 Mar 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — "HELP ME! I can't open my V8 file with MicroStation!" Axiom's support team hears this plea all too often. They receive more calls about V8 design file corruption than V7 design file corruption.

MicroStation attempts to abort gracefully after opening a corrupted V8 file.
MicroStation V8 users report models which they can't activate. They also report elements ...
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7 Mar 2007
Jackson, Mississippi, USA — This month the
MicroStation Today user spotlight shines on John Ward from the Mississippi Department of Transportation (DOT). John gave us an overview of how he uses
FileFixer, RefWriter and
Microsoft Office Importer to keep Mississippi DOT's CAD standards up to par.

John Ward of the Mississippi Department of Transportation
MicroStation Today: Please give a brief description of ...
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7 Feb 2007
By Reverend Bethel Chapman, Design Manager, Valero Paulsboro Refinery and Pastor, CornerStone Pentecostal Assembly
PAULSBORO, NEW JERSEY, USA — One afternoon, I was using
FileFixer to repair ten MicroStation design files with problems such as "end of file missing", nested cell corruption and a number of other various problems. I thought to myself — if only I had this tool in my church, what ...
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7 Feb 2007
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — It's true that MicroStation shops around the world report saving time by using the software applications in
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit. It's true that many Federal and state agencies like the US Army Corps of Engineers, 38 state Departments of Transportation and thousands of engineering firms in 66 countries use
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit to reduce project costs.

MicroStation
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7 Jan 2007
By Rick Sewell, Director of Customer Services and Support
Many CAD Managers install Axiom products on a network. One concern that is shared among them is that their users (using the same product on the network) may overwrite each other's settings files. This can be undesirable, especially when the users are working on different projects that require different settings. To avoid this, you can use ...
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7 Dec 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Because Axiom's
FileFixer has distinguished itself worldwide as
the solution for automatic analysis and repair of MicroStation V7 and V8 design file corruption, there's really no reason not to reveal how we do it. Companies often protect their proprietary data and trade secrets but, what the heck, let's see what I can get past the editor.

"Mommy,
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7 Nov 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Day after day, MicroStation managers and users ask us for solutions to the latest time-consuming problems that have been tossed their way. Most of the time, these problems are due to orders to bring about consistency in the CAD environment or a client's last-minute demands.
Axiom's
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit comprises a package of MicroStation utilities that gives you the power to handle ...
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7 Oct 2006
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom analyzes more corrupted MicroStation files each year than any other third party - and this does not include the file analysis and repair performed daily by
FileFixer license holders around the globe. Axiom's ongoing corruption analysis has resulted in more than 18 years of enhancements to the original
FileFixer and now a half-decade of enhancements to
FileFixer for V8.
The ...
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