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Use Sample Documentation to SELL
08/16/2010 – 8:40 am | View Comments
Use Sample Documentation to SELL

Do you regularly or have you ever spent countless hours creating full or project documentation/ engineering drawings to help you win a project proposal (without an upfront design fee)?  Can we agree that this is …

What is proposal ready data?
07/12/2010 – 2:11 pm | View Comments
What is proposal ready data?

D-Tools publishes two quality levels of data: Proposal Ready and Complete. What is the difference? Stated simply, proposal ready data includes the most basic data needed to quickly produce a quote and win the job. …

SI5.5 SP2 Upgrade Now Available
04/26/2010 – 9:14 am | View Comments
SI5.5 SP2 Upgrade Now Available

D-Tools  is proud to announce the general availability of SI5.5 SP2 . The newest release in the SI5.5 series is now available to existing customers via automatic updates.

SI5.5 SP2 Upgrade Release Date Announced
04/20/2010 – 10:51 am | View Comments
SI5.5 SP2 Upgrade Release Date Announced

D-Tools  is proud to announce the general availability of SI5.5 SP2 . The newest release in the SI5.5 series will be available to existing customers via automatic updates beginning Monday, April 26th at 12:00 PM EST.

D-Tools SI5.5 SP2 Trial Now Available
03/17/2010 – 9:29 am | View Comments
D-Tools SI5.5 SP2 Trial Now Available

D-Tools  is proud to announce the availability of SI5.5 SP2. The newest release in the SI5.5 series is available for trial download starting today. SP2 will be made available to existing customers via automatic updates …

Deleting a local SketchUp collection in windows vista
11/06/2009 – 11:40 am | View Comments
Deleting a local SketchUp collection in windows vista

Google SketchUp is one of the most powerful 3D software solutions out there.  Building components and creating local collections seems too easy to perform with Google SketchUp, but to remove or delete a local collection should …

Automate Your Price Update Process with EZMatch, EZip and Quickbooks
10/27/2009 – 3:23 pm | View Comments
Automate Your Price Update Process with EZMatch, EZip and Quickbooks

We just finished putting the final touches on huge, highly competitive design build project that could make or break our quarter, when the purchasing manager rushed into the owner’s office and told him we just …

Scheduled Server Maintenence Alert
10/19/2009 – 4:43 pm | View Comments
Scheduled Server Maintenence Alert

D-Tools will be performing necessary maintenance of our production servers on Thursday, October 22nd. The maintenance is scheduled for 5PM PST (8PM EST) and will take approximately 2 hours to complete. During this time, some …

D-Tools Launches SI5.5 Estimator for Vertical Markets
10/13/2009 – 12:38 pm | View Comments
D-Tools Launches SI5.5 Estimator for Vertical Markets

D-Tools Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software today announced that it is expanding its customer focus to enable systems integrators in the Energy, IT, and Security markets to quickly and easily generate accurate, …

Vista Users Upgrading to SI5.5 SP1
09/28/2009 – 7:46 am | View Comments
Vista Users Upgrading to SI5.5 SP1

This posting is to inform you of a slight variation in which the update to SP1 must be run on a Vista machine.  Most of the instructions in this post apply but there is one …

The “Check In” Command for Projects
09/22/2009 – 2:30 pm | View Comments
The “Check In” Command for Projects

I wanted to make sure our users were aware of a feature in SI5.5 that can save them from a lot of pain and wasted time if something “bad” happens to their local computer.  Over …

SI5.5 SP1 on September 28, 2009
09/22/2009 – 11:54 am | View Comments
SI5.5 SP1 on September 28, 2009

As our CTO, Corey Krehel mentioned in this post http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/si55-sp1-release/ SP1 to SI5.5 will be released to current users on September 28th.
The SP1 release for SI5.5 has two components to it: an update to your …