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CAD managers: Reduce your V8 workload!
Learn how you too can get more work
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CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
MicroStation V8 is the most robust MicroStation platform developed
to date. Yet, it does not offer the capabilities to automate
many of the repetitive and time-consuming tasks that many
MicroStation shops must do in order to keep up with everyday
productivity demands (things like fixing batches of problematic
design files, correcting CAD standard violations in bulk and
modifying all reference file attachments in a project - tasks
at which Axiom's V8 utilities excel).
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| You saved time in V7. Why stop there? Take MicroStation
Productivity Toolkit with you to MicroStation V8! |
It is no surprise then that as use of MicroStation V8 continues
to rise, so do sales of Axiom V8 utilities. This article highlights
some of the ways in which seasoned Axiom users have benefited
after upgrading from Axiom V7 utilities to Axiom V8 utilities.
Axiom V8 tools — a CAD manager's
story
We've used Axiom V7 tools for about two years now. Since we
are now beginning to design using MicroStation V8 exclusively,
I decided to get MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for
V8. Microsoft Office Importer for V8 (a component of Toolkit)
is an absolute godsend. Our engineers import lots of spreadsheets
with calculations in them into our MicroStation files using
it. The key benefit they get out of doing this is the ease
with which they can modify the calculations in the Excel spreadsheets.
When they need to modify or add calculations to the spreadsheet,
they no longer have to re-import the data one or two columns
at a time or do the modifications directly in the MicroStation
files, which gets the data out of sync with the Excel spreadsheets.
But since Microsoft Office Importer for V8 links the
imported data directly to the spreadsheets, they can now open
the Excel spreadsheets by clicking a button in Importer,
edit them in Excel and then bring them back just as easily
with Importer. This saves the engineers a lot of time and
preserves the formatting of the imported data with very little
effort.
Being the CAD manager, I know our operators don't always
follow CAD standards. Since it is my job to ensure that all
deliverables are 100% compliant, I depend on SpecChecker
for V8 to get this done. The standards we follow are client-driven,
meaning that from one job to the next the standards change.
SpecChecker for V8 makes it very easy for me to input
the standards criteria for every new project. Once I do that,
SpecChecker for V8 does the rest for me. It detects
all the spec violations in hundreds of our design files and
corrects them too. I use it in conjunction with Global
File Changer for V8 which allows me to make batch changes
to these files if need be. I enter in all the key-in commands
and it goes to work moving very specific elements to the right
level when they are not where they are supposed to be. Our
purchase of MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V8
has changed our jobs tremendously, for the better. Terry
Church - A Epstein & Sons & ISI
From 5 to V8 with Axiom's aid
I have used FileFixer since MicroStation 5 - back in
the DOS days. I remember getting a lot of "end-of-file"
missing errors. Once, one of our clients sent me back the
files I had delivered, because they couldn't select an element
even though they could see it on the screen. After running
FileFixer, this wasn't a problem. Just last fall, I
purchased the V8 version of FileFixer since we had
just upgraded to MicroStation V8. I run FileFixer for V8
every time before I make a submittal to our clients. Our MicroStation
files don't crash like they used to, but the report file tells
me that FileFixer for V8 repairs a lot of errors it
finds in the files. This gives me confidence that our deliverables
will not be coming back to me and that our clients will be
happy once they receive them. Edgar
Gamiao - RM Towill Corp
"All reference files accounted
for!" How RefManager for V8 helped
I have used the V7 version of RefManager since 2000.
It mainly allows me to deliver submittal to clients on a CD
without having missing reference files. We are now on MicroStation
V8 and so are our clients, so I upgraded to RefManager
for V8 because my and their needs are still the same as
under V7. With RefManager for V8, I can easily place
the full path in all the attachments' "File Name"
field and then, still using RefManager for V8, I strip
out the drive letter from the paths. This allows my client
to place the CD in their CD drive and, since there are no
drive letters in the "File Name" fields, MicroStation
V8 thinks of their path as being relative to the root of the
CD drive and there are no reference files missing. This works
great. I oftentimes do this in hundreds of reference files,
so I find it essential to use RefManager for V8. It
would be a lot harder and impractical to do this without it.
Chuck Houston - Gulf Interstate Engineering
Call now!
For more information on MicroStation
Productivity Toolkit, contact an Axiom MicroStation
Consultant today! Call 727-442-7774 extension 8940 or email
us.
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