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Wire Auditing in SI 5
07/31/2008 – 3:48 pm | Comments Off
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 | One 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 in …

Modifying Existing SI 5 Shapes
07/08/2008 – 12:19 pm | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
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 …

Building Your SI 5 Database Part I – Setting Expectations
03/19/2008 – 4:38 pm | 3 Comments
Building Your SI 5 Database Part I – Setting Expectations

The biggest challenge to new users of SI 5 is building your database. There is no moving forward without a database of your products, period. Yes, it takes time. How long it …

Building Your SI 5 Database Part I
03/08/2008 – 11:33 am | Comments Off
Building Your SI 5 Database Part I

Building Your SI 5 Database Part I – Setting Expectations
The biggest challenge to new users of SI 5 is building your database.  There is no moving forward without a database of your products, period.  Yes, …

New User Orientation and How-to Webinars Available
02/08/2008 – 11:08 am | Comments Off

We are pleased to offer our clients two new series of webinars this year.  The first one is the User Orientation Webinar Series.  This series consists of four sessions that run Tuesday through Friday of …

Speakers in SI 5
02/08/2008 – 11:07 am | Comments Off
Speakers in SI 5

The subject of how to deal with speakers always seems to come up when new clients begin using our software.  The question being, do you enter speaker pricing for a pair of speakers or for …