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4 Oct 2010
Don't let CAD standards problems bite you in the backside.
SpecChecker,
SpecMonitor and
SpecManager, three key software components of MicroStation Acceleration Garage will help ensure your CAD standards are being used. And now, these three vital CAD standards tools work with V8i and ProjectWise.
Need to ensure certain elements are on certain levels in dozens, hundreds or thousands of files? Want a fast way to check ...
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1 Jan 2010
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30 Dec 2009
How to avoid losing on a MicroStation project that has overly complex CAD standards
By Rick DeWitt
I was talking to a CAD manager in the Washington, DC area the other day who seemed ready to collapse. He had been trying to get his designers to follow a client's CAD standard for a project and all of his designers were complaining because the standards were complex, cumbersome ...
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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 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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7 Jul 2006
Standardize your MicroStation files as you create them!
The problem: You and your team of designers keep getting designs rejected due to violations of CAD standards. Quick solution: Use
SpecMonitor, the program that enforces CAD standards as elements are created.
The purpose of
SpecMonitor is to automate quality assurance and quality control — to greatly assist you in the creation of standard drawings, without the need for ...
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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
SpecMonitor, DgnCompare and Duplicate Element Remover added to MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V8.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V8's value has been increased by the addition of three newly-released V8 utilities:
SpecMonitor, DgnCompare and
Duplicate Element Remover. These staples of the V7 version of
MicroStation Productivity Toolkit are finally taking their position in the V8 world.
Perfect CAD standards with SpecMonitor for V8
"SpecMonitor ensures ...
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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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