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Save time while working with multiple
design files!
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA
— Do you have to have multiple
sessions of MicroStation open just to view multiple design
files? DgnQuickPick is a MicroStation add-on that allows
users to have immediate access to multiple project design
files in a single session of MicroStation, by only clicking
on a tab labeled with the file's name. DgnQuickPick
reduces design time and frustration for all those users who
need access to more than one design file at a time.
One time-consuming aspect of working with
multiple project files is searching for the file you need amidst
a sea of files, folders and servers. Typically, if a MicroStation
user wants to open a design file during their current session,
he would carry out the following sequence: 1. Go to the File
menu. 2. Select the "Open" option. 3. Browse to the
file they wish to open. 4. Click the <OK> button. This
operation takes a user out of the active file and into a new
file.
Some may say, "What about the recently viewed list in the
File menu?" The ten most recently-opened design files used
are available there, but users sometimes need to go further
back and the buffer is cleared after the user exits MicroStation.
DgnQuickPick allows users to easily have access to any
number of design files in a single session of MicroStation.
This saves time, reduces frustration and eliminates the need
for workarounds.
This feels familiar…
DgnQuickPick borrows the tab functionality from the
immensely popular Firefox web browser. With Firefox, links
can be opened as separate tabs in one window, rather than
in multiple browser windows. Users can jump from one website
to another and never worry about closing, or opening, a browser
window. Apply this functionality to the MicroStation design
environment, and that is the essence of DgnQuickPick.
The list of design files (tabs) is displayed
in a dockable toolbar. If a user wants to open a particular
file, all he has to do is click on a tab and the file is opened.
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| DgnQuickPick's main toolbar. |
Features
DgnQuickPick tab names are automatically generated
based on the filename. Also, DgnQuickPick utilizes
a color-coding system to indicate characteristics of the files
in a list. The active file is always displayed in green. Blue
means that file is referenced to the active file. Black names
are merely additional files in the list. "Read-only"
files and files that are being used by another user are displayed
in red. Once a "red file" is closed or write-enabled,
its color in the tab list is immediately changed to one of
the other above-mentioned color choices. Files can be added
to a list using several different methods. One method lets
a user easily create a tabbed list of all the design files
in a single project directory. Other methods for adding files
include a "by element" option where a user can add
a file to the tab list by clicking on any element in that
file - for example an element in a displayed reference file.
To activate this feature, all the user has to do is click
on the Add Tab button and select the "By Element"
option. To remove a file from the tab list, just click on
the <Remove Tab> button in the Remove Tabs dialog (second
icon from the left) and click on the tab you want to remove.
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| With DgnQuickPick, users
can add tabs, |
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| or remove tabs with a click. |
Currently, DgnQuickPick supports DGN files and
DWG files (in the V8 version).
Attach a reference in one click!
DgnQuickPick has additional functionality not directly
related to opening files quickly. For example, files within
a list can easily be attached to the active file as a reference
file. This way, if users need to attach a reference file quickly
they can bypass the customary File | Reference method of attaching
a reference.
DgnQuickPick users can also automatically execute MicroStation
key-in commands a file is opened. If the user wants to perform
a single key-in or multiple key-ins on a file when it is opened,
all the user has to do is specify the key-in commands and
DgnQuickPick will automatically carry out the commands on
the file.
What users say
"With DgnQuickPick I am ablw oto have multiple
drawings opeen at the same time and tab between them,"
stated RaChelle Schiller, Xcel Energy. "If one of the
drawing contained on the tabwas referenced to another drawing
on the ta, the changes are updated automatically wgich eliminates
the need to reload the reference. [DgnQuickPick] has
increase my productivity. This program is a hit!"
Change is coming!
DgnQuickPick simplifies a task that is done many times
throughout the day at any CAD shop. Rather than laboriously
browsing and scrolling to find and select needed files,
DgnQuickPick gives MicroStation users the ability to access
their project design files with just one click.
Call now!
For more information on
DgnQuickPick contact an Axiom MicroStation Consultant
today! Call 727-442-7774 extension 9454 or e-mail 9454@AxiomInt.com.
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