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How to survive the constant demands for
change in the MicroStation world.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
Day after day, MicroStation managers and
users ask us for solutions to the latest time-consuming problems
that have been tossed their way. Most of the time, these problems
are due to orders to bring about consistency in the CAD environment
or a client's last-minute demands.
Axiom's MicroStation Productivity Toolkit comprises
a package of MicroStation utilities that gives you the power
to handle these constant demands for change, gracefully and
quickly. While every shop doesn't necessarily have a major
problem daily, there are numerous situations that occur regularly
in any CAD environment, where having a tool designed to make
the types of changes you need on multiple design files could
save you or your users many hours of painful, manual work.
Let's take a look at some typical examples and see how MicroStation
Productivity Toolkit can take some of the sting out of
change!
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| Use Global File Changer to select the command
file and select the design files to run the command file
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Changing design file settings on the
fly!
You've got a project nearing completion and need to make a
submittal to your customer. Because the fifty files in the
project are being changed daily, with MicroStation alone there
is no telling what condition the level display and view attributes
were left in by the last user without opening up each file.
Then you have to make the needed adjustments and save the
settings. If you had Global File Changer (a component
of MicroStation Productivity Toolkit), you could set
up a simple command file that would turn on the views you
wanted; turn off the ones you didn't want; set the level displays
for each view according to the standard; adjust the necessary
display settings; fit the views you wanted; and save the settings.
This series of steps could then be run on all fifty design
files automatically one after the other in just a few minutes.
The command file you created could be saved and reused every
time design files needed to be sent to that customer. If you
have multiple customers, the same command file can be copied
with an appropriate name and adjusted to match each client's
submittal demands.
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| FileFixer’s <Repair> function and
the report file that tells you everything that was fixed |
Change the hand that file corruption
deals you
We also hear about how "Murphy's
Law" applies to the MicroStation community. Take the
following as an example. A large project is due tomorrow.
MicroStation displays an error dialog when you attempt to
open the file. The last backup was done last week. Without
FileFixer, another MicroStation Productivity Toolkit
component, effectively repairing this file fast enough to
meet the deadline could be impossible. With FileFixer,
a complete repair usually takes less than five minutes —
start to finish — and you're back in business.
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| RefManager gives you exactly precise control
over which reference file attachments you want to change
and which ones you don’t want to change. |
Changing reference file settings to
meet a standard
Has this one ever happened to you? Your customer insists that
reference file full paths must not be saved. In addition,
they demand that logical names of the border reference files
be "Border C", "Border D", and so on.
Instead, your designer inadvertently saved the full path and
used "C Sheet", "D Sheet", and so on,
as the logical names. For a project of forty sheet files,
with four to ten reference files each, it could easily take
hours to correct the settings in all the sheet files. With
RefManager, yet another component of MicroStation
Productivity Toolkit, you could remove any saved full
path and change the appropriate logical names in a single
automated pass that wouldn't take more than ten minutes.
MicroStation Productivity
Toolkit has the right tools!
For 21 years, Axiom has been working with CAD professionals
to build and enhance the tools in MicroStation Productivity
Toolkit to provide effective solutions for the thousands
of different problems that can come up in any MicroStation
shop. MicroStation Productivity Toolkit includes programs
that make short work of reference file problems, cell library
management, design file corruption repair, quality assurance
checks, bulk file manipulation, annoying duplicate element
removal, import of large Excel spreadsheets and Word documents,
design file comparisons and much, much more.
Call now!
MicroStation
Productivity Toolkit is the ideal package for dealing
with the rigorous production demands of MicroStation departments.
To learn how its tools can help you, call 727-442-7774 extension
9628 or e-mail 9628@AxiomInt.com.
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