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How to Keep MicroStation V8i Training Costs Down

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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?

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)

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