CAD/BIM Tips & Tricks

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Speed Up Design Projects Using the Microsoft Office Importer App

How to paste a large spreadsheet into a DWG or DGN in one operation, even though it may seem too tall to fit in the border in a single piece.

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Plotting a 3D Reference as a 3D PDF

It’s easy to create 3D PDFs from 3D references. Impress your co-workers and superiors, then provide them with a 3D PDF that really shows your handiwork.

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Easily Clean Up Noisy Raster Reference Files

Do you work with scanned drawings, such as TIF or CIT graphics files, referenced to MicroStation DGN files? Do you have to fix them outside of MicroStation?

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Tips & Tricks: MicroStation V8i Shortcuts

Easily interact with MicroStation’s Main Toolbox, Tasks Toolbox, View Toolbox and Tool Settings dialog box using keyboard shortcuts.

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Easily Change the Display of Levels for References in MicroStation

Have you ever received a set of project files and found that all of the reference file levels you need to see have their display turned off?

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Tips & Tricks: How to Create Multi-page PDFs Directly from MicroStation!

Does Axiom have a tool that will allow you to print multiple MicroStation files to a single PDF file?”

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Try This Trick to Speed Up Design Projects Using the Microsoft Office Importer App

You have been there – a project deadline is closing in and you still have to import several giant spreadsheets, containing material information, specifications or measurements, into your CAD drawing. You try to import one spreadsheet and, to your horror, they’ve imported strangely. The cells are off, the numbers are misplaced and they don’t follow…

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Have Your Messed-up MicroStation Files Fixed Automatically

Have Your Messed-up MicroStation Files Fixed Automatically

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Where Did those Reference Files Go?

Published 7 August 2012 Avoid having to re-plot sheets due to missing reference files. By Eiren Smith Reference attachments can go missing when you least expect it. If reference attachments go missing prior to plotting a set of completed drawings, that’s especially bad timing, particularly if you don’t know that they went missing. Hopefully, you…

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