CAD/BIM Tips & Tricks

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Bringing new ideas to life — An interview with Dr. Victor Frankenstein

Don’t underestimate the specialty market. I have made a good living from providing services to clients who are a little outside the mainstream.

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Translating Between MicroStation and AutoCAD Again?

Automatically create project settings files, which can be used over and over on subsequent translations of files from the same project, vendor or contractor.

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The secret behind excellent infrastructure

How do you ensure excellent infrastructure? What is the real secret behind it? What “infrastructure” underlies all excellent infrastructure?

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My Translations Are a Mess!

How do you fix or prevent the messes that occur when translating CAD files from AutoCAD to MicroStation?

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Model Merging in MicroStation

Users can create standalone design files by copying each external reference file to its own model in the master design file.

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Making your MicroStation life easier

Here at Axiom, we are not satisfied to just sell software. We want our software used. That’s why we make it — to make the MicroStation user’s life easier.

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My MicroStation–AutoCAD Translations Are a Mess!

Control things like levels, colors, line styles, line weights, fonts and reference files.

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How to quickly extract cells from a design file into a cell library

Extract every cell from a design file and place them in a cell library automatically and without duplicates.

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Instantly Get Rid of Unneeded, Non­displayed Reference Attachments

Avoid having to manually remove reference attachments when you’re done with them. By Eiren Smith, Axiom Product Manager It’s easy to grow accustomed to managing reference attachment settings completely manually, one attachment at a time. But when you need to make a single change (or multiple changes) to a lot of reference attachments in one…

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