CAD/BIM Tips & Tricks
Fútbol! Barcelona Football Club: Dream-Building with MicroStation. Olé!
One doesn’t have to be a soccer fan to have heard of the Barcelona Football Club. What Americans and Canadians call soccer, the rest of the world calls football, or fútbol, or footie.
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Changing Multiple Title Blocks in AutoCAD No Longer a Pain in Your “Backside”
For example, what if you have a project with 167 DWG sheet files and suddenly find you need to insert a new sheet between sheets 12 and 13, thereby messing up your sheet numbering and sheet counts? Wouldn’t it be a pain to fix all that manually, one title block at a time?
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Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe
Given the choice by the Nazis to adapt his architecture school’s curriculum in order to stay open, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe shut it down. This was no small thing, flying in the face of Hitler’s wishes and closing a school that was greatly influential.
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What do you mean the global origin is wrong?
In the many years I have worked with CAD professionals, one area that seems to be consistently misunderstood is “global origin”. What exactly is it? What happens if you change it? How do you change it? How does it affect reference files? Does Axiom have any products that can help with this?
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Easing The Pain of MicroStation/AutoCAD Translations
Translation is almost always a painful subject for several valid reasons. AutoCAD and MicroStation do a lot of important things differently. Because of those differences, users of the two different CAD packages almost always organize projects and implement CAD standards in different ways. This means that when a project created using MicroStation and its drafting…
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Project Impossible – CAD Manager Looks for Something He Doesn’t Want to Find
Using the V8 version of MicroStation Productivity Toolkit and with the help of Axiom customer support, John completed all of the above tasks and got the project delivered on time and to the customer’s specifications.
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MicroStation File Corruption Adds Time and Extra Costs to Your Projects
When MicroStation tables become corrupt, MicroStation can crash unexpectedly which can cost your company time and money. FileFixer helps keep your projects on track and under budget.
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How to Get the View Attributes Right the First Time in MicroStation Files Translated From AutoCAD
In practically every translation project between AutoCAD and MicroStation, there is always something that messes things up and needs to be changed to keep the customer…
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Stable Datums and Silver Linings for You in a Time of Adversity
So, that dream of being able to work in your pajamas from home has finally come true (even if not in the manner you expected). You can network with your colleagues and get together for virtual conferences to keep the proverbial ball rolling.
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