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10 Nov 2009
Our first browser-based V8i course,
V8i Essentials: 101A — Open the MicroStation World, has just been released.
With Axiom's self-paced MicroStation e-learning courses, users can now learn from MicroStation gurus without having to travel around the country or sit in a course room. In fact, any user can learn new skills or brush up on existing knowledge without leaving his or her desk!
In this course, ...
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7 Jan 2009
Part two in series of articles on how to customize workspaces to make your life easier
Clearwater, Florida, USA — Do you sometimes find yourself groping around trying to locate the resources (such as fonts, text styles, line styles, macros, seed files and dimension styles) needed for a design file? MicroStation workspaces can greatly improve productivity and help ensure that the correct resources are being used ...
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7 Jan 2009
By Rick Sewell
Often, it is beneficial to change what products are displayed on your Axiom pull-down menu for individual users or different classes of users working in different disciplines. It removes the potential confusion of what products are available to be used and restricts user access for any products that the Administrator does not want the user to use. The aximenu.cfg file lists what ...
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8 Dec 2008
Greg McKinney shows how to save time and boost productivity in this series of articles on workspaces.
Clearwater, Florida, USA — In this series of articles, I provide power user tips (and some little-known inside data) on using workspaces that will save you time, increase your productivity and help maintain project standards.
Using incorrect resources can cost thousands — even
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7 Nov 2008
By Rick Sewell
It seems that for every project that requires design work there are special menus that you have to use, certain palettes you need to keep open — not to mention the usual main menus you keep open all the time. Sometimes you cover more of your screen with menus than you do with your actual view window.
By default, MicroStation loads with the ...
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7 Jun 2008
Clearwater, Florida, USA — The default installation of MicroStation has nine pull-down menus containing way over 100 menu items. That's not counting a couple dozen submenus on these same menus that contain another 100-plus menu items. Clearly MicroStation has no shortage of available options. And every one of them is necessary in order to accommodate the many and varying ways that companies use MicroStation.
But the ...
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7 Sep 2006
An Axiom customer recently asked us to teach him how to add a frequently used cell to a button on a tool box, so that he could just click on an icon and place the cell, instead of having to find the cell in the cell library.
Before you start: First, you have to attach the cell library that contains the cell you want to place, ...
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7 May 2006
In this tip, you will learn how to change the view control settings associated with your mouse's wheel. This tip assumes two things: 1) you are using MicroStation V8 and 2) your mouse has a wheel.
First, go to Workspace | Preferences and click on "Mouse" from the category selections.
Preferences dialog box
Under the "Set Mouse Preferences" section of the dialog ...
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7 Sep 2005
From ControlAltDelete — www.penbrush.com
Question: Is there a way to adjust the transparency, say 50%, when I place Shape / Smartline or Create Region? Also, is it possible to print it out just as is without tweaking the pentable or anything?
Answer: If you are looking for filled shapes displaying on your screen with transparency, it is best to use a pen table with a RIP driver ...
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7 Apr 2005
By Mike Arroyo, Axiom Product Manager
If MicroStation is installed on a single computer, but if different people share it, you should consider making your own personal space to keep your workspace settings intact. This is how you do it.
- From the MicroStation Manager dialog box, locate the Workspace area with three drop-down menus labeled User, Project and Interface. Click on the Interface drop-down menu and
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