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"I've been fooled before…"
By Dennis J. Primeaux of Baskerville
& Donovan Engineers in Daphne, Alabama.
We purchased our first Axiom product — Microsoft
Office Importer — in the last year on the recommendation
of an engineer who came on board from another company. His
company had used Microsoft Office Importer extensively
for a couple of years and they had been very impressed with
its capability.
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| By Dennis J. Primeaux of Baskerville & Donovan Engineers
in Daphne, Alabama. |
As with all new software, I was skeptical at first —
I've been fooled before — and wanted to see it in action
— I'm the kind of guy who you have to prove it to —
before I made any decision to purchase.
After an initial setup, we hit the ground running and have
never looked back.
We do a lot of Alabama DOT work along with various city and
county projects. Particularly, DOT work requires many box
sheets (see definition below) that contain detailed quantities
of many pay items (specific services or materials used during
a project, each with a unique identification code) required
for roadway design. Alabama DOT assigns a number to each pay
item. For example, 205A-001 is the number for a "Removal
of Structure".
A box sheet is a spreadsheet made up of multiple boxes containing
pay items — such as a box for striping, removal of structures
or drainage — and each box includes specifics about the
each item, like where exactly it will be placed. At the bottom
of each box there is a total quantity for each item. With
Microsoft Office Importer, we link these totals to
the pay sheet (spreadsheet containing a list of all pay items
for a project) in the design file.
When we fill in the boxes in the box sheet, the total at
the bottom of that box is linked to the pay sheet in the design
file, so changes made to the spreadsheets in Excel are automatically
updated to that particular pay item in the pay sheet.
With Axiom's Microsoft Office Importer, the detailing
and the linkage of each box item to the pay sheet was absolutely
incredible. Not only did it save us significant time in compiling
these sheets — we used to do it the old-fashioned manual
way — it also improved our accuracy in the quantities
reported.
Also, when we ran into a problem on the way we were importing
a text file into MicroStation, the Axiom technical support
help we received was outstanding and our request was handled
in a very timely manner. Microsoft Office Importer is
really great, very affordable and I highly recommend it.
Call now!
For more information on Microsoft
Office Importer contact an Axiom MicroStation Consultant
today! Call 727-442-7774 extension 9281 or e-mail 9283@axiomint.com.
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