COLUMNS

This month''s recommended reads from the Column articles are:

Rendering Materials 301: managing materials

Materials are now stored in dgnlibs, or your active dgn. This article reviews how to manage them effectively for your projects...

15th of October 2010

Print Organiser 101

Print Organizer has replaced Batch Plot. Go to File Print Organizer...

11th of June 2010

The importance of health pt II: Acting on the results

This 2nd part of Nigel's look at getting your business healthchecked asks whether you should get tough, and if you really want to get healthy at all...

30th of November 2009

The importance of health

This month's sopabox looks at finding a needle in the haystack of construction information, how many of us can't see the wood for the trees, and several other cliches...

4th of November 2009

The V8i right-press menu

The right-press menu - that is the pop-up menu that appears when you hold down the right mouse (reset) button - was a welcome addition in MicroStation XM. In V8i it has been expanded and now offers further context menus...

17th of June 2009

Rendering Materials 101: material priorities

A question that is raised again and again is which material setting has priority? You can apply materials to an element in many different ways...

12th of May 2009

Rendering Materials 101: What's new in V8i

V8i has introduced a series of changes in the way materials are handled in MicroStation...

7th of May 2009

Cancel My Subscription

Nigel's soapbox this month looks at the necessity of upgrading in a recession and how boring the Doors were...

1st of May 2009

Top Ten Tips: How to avoid redundancy

Charles A. Doppleganger, CAD Manager extraordinaire passes on his invaluable advice on how to remain redundancy-proof this April 1st...

1st of April 2009

Display Styles

Display Styles are predefined ways of viewing your model. They are types of rendered displays which can be customised to include shadows and transparency along with combinations of hidden lines, smooth shading or hidden lines...

3rd of March 2009

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