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7 Jul 2006
Today's CAD manager needs help. Whether communicating with decision-makers or supporting all his users, the CAD manager is spread too thin. I am willing to bet that the bulk of the CAD manager's time is spent handling emergencies, instead of finding new ways to improve his and his staff's job satisfaction. So why not get some outside help?

According to a
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7 May 2006
When facing tough deadlines, it's often the CAD manager who takes responsibility for getting a project completed on time. CAD managers have been known to go to great lengths — from extensive MicroStation training for users to pulling all-nighters — to avoid costly project delays.
Always in the forward-thinking CAD manager's corner....
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7 Apr 2006
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA — Some people don't mind doing long, laborious tasks — Tammy Burgoa of Metcalf & Eddy Incorporated in San Diego, California is not one of those people. Being an industrious person, Tammy lets
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit do much of her repetitive work for her, so she can focus on more important job functions. By doing so, she has the time to ...
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7 Feb 2006
COLLINSVILLE, ILLINOIS, USA — This month MicroStation Today had the chance to catch up with Marcus McConachie, the Engineering Applications Specialist for the Illinois Department of Transportation. Not only did we find out that Marcus has a lot of love for his family and the St. Louis Cardinals, but that he also has quite an affinity for Axiom utilities.

Marcus
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7 Jan 2006
SpecChecker product manager, Eiren Smith, talks about its customer-driven enhancements
We have a very close relationship with our customers. Though we produce general-purpose tools for MicroStation, we enhance our tools to handle specific situations that you communicate to us. Our relationship with our customers is very important. To maintain it, we have to listen to you and give you what you need.
When the MicroStation Today guys ...
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7 Dec 2005
NORTH POLE, ARCTIC CIRCLE — Every year, due to a special licensing agreement between Axiom and Santa Claus' company, Holiday Spirit, Incorporated (HSI), MicroStation Today gets an exclusive, one-on-one interview with the jolly man in red. Usually the interview is held in a comfortable and gregarious environment, but this year, Santa Claus will be chatting with us from the unsightly confines of the North Pole ...
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14 Aug 2005
Toolkit owners with active maintenance to receive new application at no charge.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — As part of their ongoing effort to continually provide greater and greater value to their customers, Axiom announces that its
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit, the most comprehensive package of MicroStation time-saving tools, has been further expanded by the addition of
SpecMonitor. The purpose of
SpecMonitor is to automate quality control by ...
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7 Aug 2005
By Eiren Smith, Axiom's Vice President for Technology
There are a million and one different CAD standards: national standards, client standards, project standards and company standards, ad hoc standards defined by CAD managers. It's a very big field. When it comes to enforcement of CAD standards, even at a small shop, it's hard to get things to hold still long enough to figure out where to ...
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15 Mar 2005
Preventative steps to ensure a successful V7 to V8 migration.
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — Are you longing to work with MicroStation V8 but obligated to continue using V7 for the immediate future? If so, you are certainly not alone. Axiom continues to energetically support its large number of V7 clients and continues to enhance the V7 version of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit applications.
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7 Sep 2004
By Eiren Smith, Vice President for Technology
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — As the Product Manager for Axiom's quality assurance tools
SpecChecker,
SpecMonitor and
RuleManager, customers regularly ask me what's new. The answer is always "Plenty!"

RuleManager for V8 can extract a set of CAD standards to be used with Axiom’s quality assurance tools from an existing design file quickly and automatically.
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