Article Archive for November 2008
Wire Label Template for Rhino 6000 Printer
My name is Victor Céspedes, AutoCAD Product Engineer for D-Tools, Inc. On November 14th at our annual DTU event, I had the opportunity to demo …
Be Thankful – and Drive Change
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday it may be a little harder to think about all of things we have to be thankful for, given the hits that our market has taken, the state of the economy, the mounting job losses….wait that’s not where I was going with this. Yes, it’s been a difficult year. But we’ve had difficult years before and somehow we get through it. I’m not saying that it is easy right now, because it isn’t. We have to work harder for every deal, we may have to offer additional services at no charge that we were used to charging for, or make less on every job.
EXE (.exe) file open problem
Symptoms
When trying to run .exe files you may get error messages like: “Access Deny”, “Runtime error” etc..
Potential Cause
Corrupt registry settings or some third party product …
Seven tips for surviving the downturn
Right arm still in a cast but I have thinking a lot about the current economy and how it affects our customers. Since I can’t …
Refine and Conquer – DTU Edition
We just got back from our D-Tools University last week. DTU is our annual 3-day user conference and training event. This year’s event was very …
Disk Quotas
A Brief History
Recently we encountered a problem with one of our clients with checking-in projects back into the server. He was able synchronize the MMPD, …
No Posts For a While
I broke a small but important bone in my right wrist last week dirt bike riding, or maybe I should say dirt bike falling. In …
The D-Tools/Zoho CRM System – Good Implementation Question
I received this email from Ryan Brown with Media Environment Designs, one of our D-Tools certified partners. MED is switching from another CRM System …
2008 D-Tools Design Award Winners Announced at DTU
Winning companies reveal impressive projects that were created with D-Tools Award-winning System Integrator software. Over $20,000 in prizes were donated by APC AV, Atlantic …
Title Blocks 102: Let’s Make a Multi-field SmartShape!
In our last article on Visio title blocks, Title Blocks #1: How to Display Existing Document Information, we were introduced to a remarkable title …
Vista-Quicklinks Error – Desription: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
This is for all users experiencing a fatal error message when trying to send estimates from a Vista client using Quicklinks and any version of Quickbooks 2008. Please understand that this is a temporary workaround, our development team is aware of the problem and they are working very hard on a permanent solution.
Also, please note that this is a BETA patch-fix, it is very important that you backup all your projects and databases. Backing up your data is always a best practice, so we recommend that you do before getting started.
LinkTools – Price Differences
If you notice that the price differs on your QuickLinks Estimate/Invoice form than on your Sales Order (SO), there are a couple of things that …
