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Pricing on Proposals
09/30/2008 – 3:13 pm | 2 Comments
Pricing on Proposals

How much pricing detail should be shown on a proposal?  Opinions vary on this but the general consensus seems to be “as little as possible”.  Of course you will always have clients that demand more …

New VOIP Option for D-Tools Webinars
09/29/2008 – 12:38 pm | No Comment
New VOIP Option for D-Tools Webinars

Now when you attend any of the D-Tools weekly webinars, whether the New User Orientation series or the Gold Support series, you will have the option of calling the conference line for audio or you …

Adding a Wire Legend in Visio
09/17/2008 – 9:19 am | No Comment
Adding a Wire Legend in Visio

Oh no, not another posting about wires. Yup!  I like wires and I like wiring diagrams, especially drawings that are well laid out and easy to read.  Color coding your wires helps considerably and adding …

Charging for the “Small Stuff”
08/21/2008 – 3:21 pm | No Comment
Charging for the “Small Stuff”

Plate inserts, wire terminals, and mud-rings are good examples of gear that you use on a project but you don’t necessarily want shown as line items on client reports. There are a variety of …

Wire Auditing in SI 5
07/31/2008 – 3:48 pm | No Comment
Wire Auditing in SI 5

There has been a change in the way wire behaves in System Integrator when working within Visio. Each end of our wire shapes are now treated uniquely: one is the “From” or “Source” end …

Modifying Existing SI 5 Shapes
07/10/2008 – 11:50 pm | 2 Comments
Modifying Existing SI 5 Shapes

You can either modify shapes directly in the stencil they already exist in or you can create a new stencil. Either way, always copy and paste the existing shape you wish to modify in …

Modifying Existing SI 5 Shapes
07/08/2008 – 12:19 pm | No Comment
Modifying Existing SI 5 Shapes

You can either modify shapes directly in the stencil they already exist in or you can create a new stencil.  Either way, always copy and paste the existing shape you wish to modify …

SI 5 Visio Stencils Analysis
05/08/2008 – 11:57 am | No Comment
SI 5 Visio Stencils Analysis

Working in Visio may be intimidating for some of you.  I was barely aware of Visio prior to starting with D-Tools.  I never had to do the flowchart thing in college.  Over the last four …

SI 5 Visio Stencils – An Analysis
04/29/2008 – 4:24 pm | 4 Comments
SI 5 Visio Stencils – An Analysis

Working in Visio may be intimidating for some of you.  I was barely aware of Visio prior to starting with D-Tools.  I never had to do the flowchart thing in college.  Over the last four …

Building Your SI 5 Database Part II – Data Entry Methods
04/15/2008 – 3:53 pm | No Comment
Building Your SI 5 Database Part II – Data Entry Methods

This article is a follow up to last month’s article: Building Your SI 5 Database Part I – Setting Expectations. The point of that article was to help you determine what fields are needed …

Difference in Plan Shape/Block Functionality Between Visio and AutoCAD
04/15/2008 – 1:36 pm | No Comment
Difference in Plan Shape/Block Functionality Between Visio and AutoCAD

Plan Blocks in the SI 5 AutoCAD interface do not have the same functionality as Plan Shapes within Visio. Connections between Plan blocks in AutoCAD do not pass data to our Installation Reports. …

Building Your SI 5 Database Part II
04/08/2008 – 11:39 am | No Comment
Building Your SI 5 Database Part II

This article is a follow up to last month’s article: Building Your SI 5 Database Part I – Setting Expectations. The point of that article was to help you determine what fields are needed to …