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7 Apr 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — 2008 marks Steve Palmer's twentieth anniversary working with Axiom. He took a bit of time away from working on new features for
FileFixer to give us an idea of what it was like to be there at the very beginning of Axiom.
Guess what Steve does when he is not programming.
Hi Steve. You have ...
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7 Mar 2008
On track with Gerard Hall of Scott Wilson Railways
London, United Kingdom — As CADD/EDMS (Electronic Document Management System) Manager for Scott Wilson Railways, Gerard Hall is responsible for managing and supporting the CADD and EDMS systems of one of the top ten largest engineering consultancy firms in the United Kingdom. He talked with us recently about some major rail projects, including transportation preparation for the ...
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7 Feb 2008
SpecChecker and RuleManager work together to make life easy.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — The biggest barrier to getting started with automatic standards enforcement is telling
SpecChecker what your standards are. With
RuleManager, a tool included for free with every copy of
SpecChecker, even that barrier is easily surmounted.
SpecChecker uses rules files to make sure your design files meet your standards. Rules files are text files that ...
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7 Jan 2008
By Steve Palmer
Clearwater, Florida, USA — It's almost midnight. You are wrapping up a project submittal for an important client. MicroStation keeps crashing when you attempt to open a vital project design file. The necessity for a
FileFixer midnight miracle is abundantly real to you right now. Just press
FileFixer's <Start> button and you're back to work in three minutes.
But
FileFixer's midnight miracles, ...
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7 Dec 2007
Washington, DC, USA — As Director of IT at Shalom Baranes Associates, the lead design firm working on the Pentagon after the terrorist attack of 2001, Ken Shigemitsu knows the importance of keeping everyone on the same page. The project, when it is finished in 2012, will have rebuilt space equivalent to two Empire State Buildings. As busy as Ken is, we managed to ...
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17 Jul 2007
By Eiren K. Smith, Product Manager
Clearwater, Florida, USA — As a result of the trend toward larger, more complex CAD standards, Axiom has released a new version of
SpecChecker. SpecChecker can now handle very large rules files and even does so using far less memory than previous versions. It can load these rules files faster than ever before, thereby reducing processing time.
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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 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 May 2007
By Rick Sewell, Customer Support
I want to show you one of the newest features added to the Axiom menu. You can now rearrange your Axiom software applications on the Axiom pull-down menu so it is organized they way you want.
For example, you could group your quality assurance products together, including
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7 Jan 2007
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Behind the release of each new product or new product version, there is a big scoop of customer-requested enhancements.
SpecChecker and
SpecMonitor are no exception. We constantly enhance
SpecChecker — which detects CAD standards violations in sets of design files — and its brother,
SpecMonitor — which runs in the background until a user violates the current CAD standards — to ...
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