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Additional Wire Phase Functionality Shape
12/01/2010 – 3:59 pm | One Comment
Additional Wire Phase Functionality Shape

I have some great Wire features to announce that build on our previous blog post “Additional New Wire Shape” by Steve Collard. In the previous post Steve announced some new wire shape features. The benefits …

Case Study: Delaware Audio Visual Integration & Design Increases Profitability and Efficiency through use of D-Tools SI5.5
10/20/2010 – 11:21 am | Comments Off
Case Study: Delaware Audio Visual Integration & Design Increases Profitability and Efficiency through use of D-Tools SI5.5

Located in Wilmington, DE, Delaware Audio Visual Integration & Design (DAVID), is a solution-oriented company servicing both the Commercial and Residential System Integration market. As they started to organize their business, Delaware Audio …

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

SI5.5 SP2 Upgrade Now Available
04/26/2010 – 9:14 am | Comments Off
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 | One Comment
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 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
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 | 4 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 | Comments Off
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 | One Comment
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 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
The “Check In” Command for Projects

When you Check-In a project from your Client to the Server, you are adding a copy of your project to the server.