Sunday, 26 May 2013
MicroStation Help for MicroStation Users
If you want to know how to do something in MicroStation, or if you've found a cool tip or trick that you'd like to share, you've come to the right place. MicroStationTips.com is a forum for MicroStation users and CAD Managers to share tips, tricks and how-tos. It is a platform for savvy users to share their bounty of knowledge with peers.
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How to Keep MicroStation V8i Training Costs Down
Written on 14 Mar, 2013 at 10:59 in MicroStation News | viewed 304 times | 0 Comments
While Increasing Billable Hours and Maintaining High Quality Clearwater, Florida, USA — “V8i training? We don’t have the budget for that.” That is a typical response that many CAD users and managers are getting today. There seem to be fewer... (Continue reading)
PDF Your Entire MicroStation Cell Library in Under 5 Minutes
Written on 14 Mar, 2013 at 10:58 in MicroStation News | viewed 274 times | 0 Comments
Tired of searching around for cells? By Rick DeWitt You’re in charge of getting everybody on your company’s latest engineering design project up to speed and productive. The customer has supplied you with the cell library, seed files and standards... (Continue reading)
Instantly Get Rid of Unneeded, Nondisplayed Reference Attachments
Written on 31 Jan, 2013 at 11:43 in MicroStation News | viewed 783 times | 0 Comments
Avoid having to manually remove reference attachments when you’re done with them. By Eiren Smith, Axiom Product Manager It’s easy to grow accustomed to managing reference attachment settings completely manually, one attachment at a time. But when you need to... (Continue reading)
Automatically Check Only Recent Changes When Verifying CAD Standards
Written on 31 Jan, 2013 at 11:42 in MicroStation News | viewed 448 times | 0 Comments
New release can check for CAD standards violations, in batch, based on element modification date. By Rick DeWitt, Axiom Senior Product Manager One source of upset between clients and contractors is the apparent failure of the contractor to follow an... (Continue reading)
Four problems users have with MicroStation
Written on 19 Dec, 2012 at 17:54 in MicroStation News | viewed 1,700 times | 0 Comments
And four solutions! Have you ever had difficulty importing text from Microsoft Word or tables from Excel into MicroStation with the correct text justification, tabs and spacing intact? Have you ever opened a design file and discovered that one or... (Continue reading)
Translating Between MicroStation and AutoCAD Again?
Written on 29 Oct, 2012 at 17:44 in MicroStation News | viewed 1,415 times | 0 Comments
How to use Translation Manager to get translations done right the first time and every time after that By Rick DeWitt, Axiom Senior Product Manager I don’t care what anyone tells you, there is no such thing as a one-click,... (Continue reading)
How to Globally Change Text Styles in any Number of DGN Files
Written on 29 Oct, 2012 at 17:44 in MicroStation News | viewed 1,659 times | 0 Comments
And do it all in one fell swoop By Rick DeWitt, Axiom Senior Product Manager CAD standards may be a pain, but they’re a fact of life. So, what do you do when you’re faced with a situation where you... (Continue reading)
Top 10 Forgotten MicroStation Commands
Written on 23 Aug, 2012 at 18:55 in MicroStation News | viewed 1,371 times | 0 Comments
Which ones do you know? MicroStation has what, a gazillion commands? I’d place bets that no one actually knows all of them. I’d also place bets that no one really needs to know them either. (Might make for a good... (Continue reading)
How to Get the View Attributes Right the First Time in MicroStation Files Translated from AutoCAD
Written on 23 Aug, 2012 at 18:54 in MicroStation News | viewed 1,536 times | 0 Comments
One more translation problem simplified. By Rick DeWitt, Axiom Senior Product Manager In practically every translation project between AutoCAD and MicroStation, there is always something that messes things up and needs to be changed to keep the customer happy and... (Continue reading)
Where Did those Reference Files Go?
Written on 23 Aug, 2012 at 18:54 in MicroStation News | viewed 2,409 times | 0 Comments
Avoid having to re-plot sheets due to missing reference files. By Eiren Smith Reference attachments can go missing when you least expect it. If reference attachments go missing prior to plotting a set of completed drawings, that’s especially bad timing,... (Continue reading)