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28 Dec 2011
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom, one of the world's most experienced developers of time-saving CAD software products, announces the release of
Translation Manager 2.0. This release adds many new features and enhancements that help eliminate the hassles normally associated with translating files between MicroStation V7 or V8 and AutoCAD DWG or DXF. "In addition to several other added features, this new version ...
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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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14 Oct 2009
So where is the fault and what can be done about it?
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Why is it V8 elements fall off the edge of the design plane? How is it possible a V8 element no longer resides on a defined level? Why is it certain elements or entire models can't be selected? Why can't MicroStation open some V8 files?
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1 Aug 2009
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7 Oct 2005
By Mike Arroyo, Axiom Product Manager
How would you redesign MicroStation's user interface so that it increases the productivity of a designer? That is the challenge facing Bentley as they work on the MicroStation V8 XM Edition.
Exploring the XM interface
Where the old MicroStation Manager used to be, XM now opens with a Windows-compliant MicroStation Manager dialog box, similar to Microsoft Outlook, with icons along the ...
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8 Mar 2004
By Inga Morozoff — www.askinga.com
For those of you working in the V7 Workmode, you may have run into some quirks such as MicroStation V8 moving and scaling elements or shifting the global origin. Understanding how MicroStation V8 works will help eliminate these problems.
When you open a V7 design file for editing, MicroStation V8 converts the file to an internal representation in memory. You can essentially ...
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