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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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Process Models and Handle V8 Symbology Settings
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 14:32 in MicroStation Tips, Settings Tips, Symbology Tips | viewed 3,408 times | 0 Comments
By Eiren Smith, Axiom’s Vice President for Technology – www.axiomint.com In the October 2003 issue of MicroStation Today, I announced the release of SpecChecker for V8. This month, I begin a multi-part series detailing many of the excellent new features... (Continue reading)
Recover Missing Elements from Your MicroStation Files
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 13:15 in Element Tips, MicroStation Tips | viewed 7,271 times | 0 Comments
By Eiren Smith, Axiom’s Vice President for Technology – www.AxiomInt.com Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been working on a design file for weeks. You’ve filled it with elements to your heart’s content. One fine morning, you load the... (Continue reading)
Easily Delete Linear Elements Partially Overlapping Other Linear Elements
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 13:08 in Element Tips, MicroStation Tips | viewed 9,678 times | 0 Comments
By Eiren Smith, Axiom’s Vice President for Technology – www.axiomint.com Accidental, duplicate elements are a fact of life for nearly all MicroStation sites. They cause plotting problems, selection trouble (elements that take forever to select with the Area Selection tool,... (Continue reading)
How to quickly extract cells from a design file into a cell library
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 12:32 in Cell Libraries, MicroStation Tips | viewed 2,697 times | 0 Comments
By Eiren K. Smith, Axiom’s Vice President for Technology – www.axiomint.com MicroStation departments sometimes receive design files from external sources containing cells which do not exist in their cell libraries. Until now, getting these cells out of design files and... (Continue reading)
How to Automatically Update Spreadsheet Links Every Time MicroStation Files are Opened
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 11:35 in Batch Changes, MicroStation Tips | viewed 10,811 times | 0 Comments
by Eiren K. Smith One of the problems that MicroStation users face is that MicroStation’s LiveLinks software often does not automatically update spreadsheet or word processing data when a MicroStation file [in which this data is linked] is opened. The... (Continue reading)
Editing library cells is no longer a burden
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 11:13 in Batch Changes, Cell Libraries, MicroStation Tips | viewed 5,094 times | 0 Comments
By Eiren K. Smith, Axiom’s Vice President for Technology – www.axiomint.com In this tip, I detail how to streamline the usually time-consuming task of editing cells in cell libraries. First, I’ll discuss how to edit a cell using MicroStation alone... (Continue reading)
Editing library cells is no longer a burden
Written on 2 Apr, 2009 at 19:59 in Batch Changes, Cell Libraries, MicroStation Tips | viewed 21,383 times | 2 Comments
By Eiren K. Smith,Vice President for Technology, Axiom In this tip, I detail how to streamline the usually time-consuming task of editing cells in cell libraries. First, I’ll discuss how to edit a cell using MicroStation alone – tedious! Then I’ll... (Continue reading)