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MicroStation Acceleration Garage

Save time and increase MicroStation productivity!

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MicroStation Acceleration Garage is a cost-efficient package of nearly all of Axiom’s time-saving software products and e-learning courses.

MicroStation Acceleration Garage is a cost-efficient package of nearly all of Axiom’s time-saving software products and e-learning courses. Not only is every product in both MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V7 and MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V8 included. We’ve also added in more of Axiom’s popular software tools such as Title Block Manager and RasterDgn plus all of Axiom’s MicroStation, GEOPAK and InRoads e-learning courses along with LearningBay’s Professional Learning Management System.

 
All MicroStation Acceleration Garage applications are designed to fulfill the following purposes:
  • Save you time.
  • Save you money.
  • Increase your profit.
  • Increase project quality.
  • Reduce project stress.
  • Make your job easier.
  • Give you back your evenings and weekends.

Every application in MicroStation Acceleration Garage has a place in your design workflow.

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Each program in MicroStation Acceleration Garage is designed to automate or simplify a known productivity-draining problem. If you have a problem in MicroStation or a bulk modification task at hand, chances are you will find the solution in MicroStation Acceleration Garage. If you have any questions, simply call one of our MicroStation Consultants at 727-442-7774 extension 1241. They will be glad to help you.

Components of MicroStation Acceleration Garage
MicroStation Acceleration Garage includes all the tools in MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V7 and MicroStation Productivity Toolkit for V8 and more.

Product Benefit

CellManager

Take control of your MicroStation cell libraries.

DgnCompare

Quickly view design file differences.

DgnQuickPick

Save time while working with multiple design files.

Duplicate Element Remover

Remove duplicate and near-duplicate MicroStation elements automatically.

English-to-Metric

Universal working units conversions

Fence Undelete

Recover deleted MicroStation elements automatically.

FileFixer

Fix any MicroStation file automatically.

Global File Changer

Make unlimited changes to multiple design files quickly and easily.

InstantDiskSpace

Get more free disk space anytime a MicroStation user wants it.

Intersection Fixer

Make perfect MicroStation line intersections — automatically.

LearningBay Professional Learning Management System

Train on MicroStation without leaving your desk. MicroStation Acceleration Garage includes all of Axiom’s MicroStation, GEOPAK and InRoads e-learning courses.

Microsoft Office Importer

Import spreadsheet and word processing data into MicroStation with perfect formatting.

Problem Element Viewer

Graphically view problem elements found by FileFixer or EdG.

RasterDgn

Easily edit monochrome, grayscale and color raster reference files without leaving MicroStation.

RefFence

Edit MicroStation reference file clipping boundaries after they’re attached.

RefManager

Solve any MicroStation reference file problem fast.

RefMerge

Merge a design file and its reference files into a single file.

RefWriter

Write to any reference file with the click of a mouse. (V7/V8/XM only)

RenamePlus

Rename any group of files using powerful character substitution commands (V7 only).

SequenceEditor

Tired of losing MicroStation elements behind filled elements? SequenceEditor solves that.

SpecChecker

Perform quality assurance checks on your MicroStation files quickly and easily.

SpecMonitor

Standardize your MicroStation files as you create them.

SpellCheckerPlus

The full-featured MicroStation spell checker

Title Block Manager

Achieve title block consistency automatically.

Version Manager

Retain past versions of your MicroStation files automatically.

In addition, MicroStation Acceleration Garage comes with two new, enterprise products:

Product Benefit

Global Workspace Manager

Manage every MicroStation workspace without leaving your desk.

CadExplorer

Google-like search and replace capabilities for MicroStation!

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For more information, call 727-442-7774 extension 1241 in the U.S. or e-mail us.

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MicroStation Acceleration Garage
Success Stories

MicroStation Acceleration Garage has rescued us many times. When repairing corrupt MicroStation files, I don’t even bother with EdG anymore. I use FileFixer instead. It fixes our design files quickly and automatically. RefManager has provided level symbology consistency throughout hundreds of our design files.

It saves us time and money. Having RefManager do this is cheaper than having to pay an operator to make these modifications in each file — on average, each of our jobs run about 240 MicroStation files! I’d say this capability alone pays for the Toolkit.

Plus, Microsoft Office Importer is the best thing I’ve found for importing text into MicroStation. It does the import without much effort on my part. MicroStation OLE (an Object Linking and Embedding technology) frequently corrupts MicroStation files — Microsoft Office Importer doesn’t. This is one of my favorites utilities in Toolkit.”
Patricia Mantooth — San Antonio, Texas

“All in all, MicroStation Productivity Toolkit is a good deal. I hate EdG. FileFixer is a lot more convenient because it runs on its own. Even though I run all my files through EdG when I first get them, I always run FileFixer on them afterwards because it fixes things that EdG does not. With EdG, I have to do individual operations for finding and repairing errors. With FileFixer, it’s click, click, bang and it’s all done. FileFixer and SpellCheckerPlus alone are definitely worth Toolkit’s money.”
Ben MacFarlane, San Diego Data Processing Corp — San Diego, California

“I find MicroStation Productivity Toolkit very useful. Its tools get a lot of use around here. I use FileFixer the most. It always fixes our problem elements quickly and easily. CellManager consolidates our cell libraries, gets rid of duplicate cells and overall organizes our cell libraries. SpellCheckerPlus gets used a lot too. I use it every time before sending a job out to a client.

Before we got the Toolkit, this never got done. DgnCompare is another useful utility. Once I needed to compare a very old drawing with a newer version of it, and all I had to do to see the differences between the two was to look at the design file report that DgnCompare outputs. MicroStation Productivity Toolkit has made MicroStation a lot easier to use.”
Joey Louallen Champion International Corp — Courtland, Alabama

“My experience with MicroStation Productivity Toolkit has been very good. This is our third version and we use it a lot. We started first with FileFixer and now we use it all the time. We used to get about half a dozen major corruptions a year before we got FileFixer. Since we use it as a prevention method against file corruption, we no longer get major crashes. It’s just amazing. I was the guy who had to do all the fixing with EdG before. Even though this gave me a very comprehensive knowledge of MicroStation file format, I’d spend 3, 5 or even 8 hours at a time trying to figure what was wrong with a file. With FileFixer, I fix files in only minutes.

I’ve also used Global File Changer and RefManager and have found these utilities to be extreme timesavers. Our initial investment in MicroStation Productivity Toolkit has paid for itself many times over. In a production environment, we have big demands on our time. Toolkit absolutely saves us time. It has made it much more profitable for us to fix things in house than to send them out”
Art Harvie, City of Surrey — Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

“I’m very happy that I have purchased MicroStation Productivity Toolkit. I’ve just begun to work with its different tools. Duplicate Element Remover is a great application. It removes up to 40% of useless vectors from the MicroStation files that come from our manufacturing department. This saves an incredible amount of time when reconstructing cells in the processed files. Also, I’ve used SpecChecker to reorganize the symbology of elements in many of our design files. This saves me 85% of the work I would have had to do myself!”
Francis Le Hardy, Philips Commercial Activities — Bruxelles, Belgium
“Alabama DOT owns MicroStation Productivity Toolkit, and I just love FileFixer. It comes in very handy. It fixes files automatically 90% of the time. We could ‘get by’ without it, but we’d have to apologize a whole lot.”
Ronald McDonald, Alabama DOT — Montgomery, Alabama
Toolkit is very useful and definitely worth more than the price! It’s great that Axiom keeps adding utilities to it for free. We’re getting more bang for the buck.”
M.W., Phoenix, Arizona
“Since EdG is somewhat of a pain, Axiom’s FileFixer is a better solution. The users here really appreciate the ease of FileFixer, but do yourself a favor and buy the MicroStation Productivity Toolkit. It is used by the city of San Diego.”
B. M., San Diego, California
“I use Toolkit everyday and it’s invaluable. A problem will come up and I’ll say, ‘I bet we can solve that with Toolkit’ and we usually do. FileFixer, Global File Changer, CellManager and RefManager in particular save us tons of time. For example, we recently had thousands of reference files that got messed up and would have taken at least two weeks to fix. RefManager fixed them in four hours.”
L.C., Georgetown, Texas
“The new products that are constantly added to Toolkit are great. Axiom really has some great ideas. We use FileFixer, RefMerge and InstantDiskSpace all the time.”
T.M., Ottawa, Canada
“I am very impressed with Toolkit. We once had a big project that involved converting 130 documents from MicroStation to AutoCAD and we were not getting a clean transformation. RefMerge and RefWriter fixed the problem and gave us the result we needed.”
D.R., St. Louis, Missouri
“I like the tools in MicroStation Acceleration Garage, particularly FileFixer. I use it a lot. FileFixer has saved me many hours of work. With FileFixer, I don't have to go into the archive or rebuild an entire drawing from scratch. FileFixer alone makes MicroStation Acceleration Garageworth it!"
R.S., Avila Beach, California
“Adding new utilities to Garage at no cost is a terrific idea!”
S.M., Cleveland, Ohio

"I have used Axiom products for the last 5 years and can say they have saved my company not only time but money as well. I am happy with the performance of your products."
Andy Lopez
CAMBURAS & THEODORE LTD.

"Garage is an important part of the system we use within our office. I
ran File Fixer a few weeks ago to recover a damaged file for someone in my
office. This saved a month's rework. I personally use Office Importer to import spreadsheets often."
GC
"The majority of our projects have ACAD deliverables and have to be translated from USTN to ACAD. We could never accomplish this without Axiom Garage. Can't do without it."
Don Davidson
Fluor Inc.

"Based on the experience, FileFixer, Office Importer, and RefManager are the most used products here at IDOT. We plan for increased use of SpecChecker and Problem Element Viewer for both in-house and consultant compliance to IDOT standards."
Robert H Peterson
Illinois Department of Transportation

"My experience with Axiom has been great. MicroStation Acceleration Garage works very well. I've used it a lot and it works great. Good job!"
S. Haskell
US Marine Corps

"Day & Zimmermann have a commitment to be at the leading edge of the Process Consulting Industry. We employ a full time Innovations Manager and as part of this initiative we decided to invest in the MicroStation Acceleration Garage to establish whether it would be of benefit to the company. During the evaluation, tools were identified as possibly being of use to the company. These were Cell Manager, Spec Checker, Global File Changer, Instant Disk Space and FileFixer. As a result of the evaluation it was recommended that the use of the tools be developed."
Bob Jackson
Day & Zimmermann UK

"At Washington Group we had been using RefManager and FileFixer for some time with success. In one case we moved 1000+ structural drawings from a Novell server to a Windows NT server and were able to preserve the reference file attachments. FileFixer was also frequently used help us resolve common problems such as zingers and double-elements.

We were then faced with creating merged drawings for our clients and found that the merge included with MicroStation has some issues including associative dimensions in scaled reference file attachments. We found that these problems are resolved in RefMerge. We were sufficiently impressed with Garage as a whole that we purchased a corporate license and have made it available to all our users.

We also appreciate the pro-active attitude of the company in their sponsorship of web-based technical updates and training sessions and the like. We expect to be a customer for some time to come."
Jack Jolly
Washington Group

"MicroStation Acceleration Garage has had a serious impact on our productivity. It saves me hours. Whenever a problem arises, I just whip out the Axiom tools and fix it!"
M.L.
NBBJ

"MicroStation Acceleration Garage has all the time saving tools that I need to get my work done in half the time."
S.H., Engineer Draftsman
U.S. Marine Corps FM Branch

"I wanted to thank all of you at Axiom for your assistance over the last few months. I've thrown a lot of questions and issues at you and in every instance I got a quick and accurate response. Garage has been an incredible time saver. I was able to correct the level symbology on over 600 MicroStation files in a matter of three or four days with Global File Changer. I repaired all of DuPont's cell libraries with a combination of FileFixer and CellManager in less than a week. Both of these tasks would have taken considerably longer, in the case of the seed files months, without Garage."
R.O.
EI DuPont DE Nemours & Company

"The only piece of software that I use more than Axiom's MicroStation Acceleration Garage is MicroStation itself. This software has saved me thousands of hours of work."
Bill Stout
Atlantic International Consulting Engineers

"We use MicroStation Acceleration Garage just about everyday, whether it is RefWriter, Global File Changer or RefManager. I use them all and found the whole Garage is a major asset for this company. It has aided in the productivity of this company from something like changing a cell in every file to changing symbology in 100's of reference files. Basically, MicroStation Acceleration Garage has been one of the best purchases we have purchased to aid in our daily production of our plan sets." K. Ellis, Louis Berger"
K. Ellis
Louis Berger

"We cannot do without this software because it increases our productivity and also has gotten us out of some very bad situations."
Victor Mueller
AMEC E&C Services Limited

Some of the companies and government agencies that own MicroStation Acceleration Garage:

Alabama DOT
Bayer
Bechtel
Carter & Burgess
Dow Corning
DuPont
Federal Aviation Administration
Florida DOT
Fluor Inc
Greenhorn O'Mara
Halliburton
IHC Holland NV
Illinois DOT
Jacobs Engineering
Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc
Louisiana DOT
Michael Baker Corp
Michigan DOT
Minnesota DOT
Montgomety Watson and Harza
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Parsons Energy
Parsons Transportation
Pentagon Renovations
PBS&J
PSE&G
Regional Transit Partners
San Diego Data Processing
Saudi Aramco
Siemens AG
TCB
TetraTech
URS Corp
Washington DOT
Westinghouse Rail
Williams Gas Pipeline
Wisconsin DOT

Call now!
For more information, call 727-442-7774 extension 1241 in the U.S. or e-mail us.

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