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Creating Half-Rack Width Shapes
08/18/2010 – 5:50 am | View Comments
Creating Half-Rack Width Shapes

It is fairly easy to create customized Visio shapes based on the SI5 library of shapes that will represent products whose width is half-rack, or 9.5 inches, that snap-to the rack shapes. By default, …

D-Tools and Media Environment Design Team Up to Offer In-booth SI5.5 Training at CEDIA EXPO
07/27/2010 – 9:11 am | View Comments
D-Tools and Media Environment Design Team Up to Offer In-booth SI5.5 Training at CEDIA EXPO

D-Tools Certified Partner, MED, will host 2 60 minute training courses in D-Tool’s Booth #2020 during CEDIA
D-Tools Inc. today announced that Certified Partner Ryan Brown of Media Environment Design (MED) will teach (2) 60 minute …

Off-page Reference Shape
07/23/2010 – 11:54 am | View Comments
Off-page Reference Shape

This question often arises:  What is the best way to handle off-page references when dealing with multiple Schematic pages. Occasionally you may run out of space on a schematic page and need to continue …

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. …

Additional new Wire Shape
07/12/2010 – 10:38 am | View Comments
Additional new Wire Shape

In my last post I told you about a cool new wire shape some of our team members had come up with, that displays the CompenentID at both ends of the wire.
Now Vic has added …

Data Services 2010
06/24/2010 – 9:50 am | View Comments
Data Services 2010

Welcome to a new era for data services at D-Tools! Back in January, our CEO Adam Stone took a hard look at how we collect, publish, and manage data for our MVP and Data Subscription …

Cool new finish wire shape
06/22/2010 – 1:26 pm | View Comments
Cool new finish wire shape

 

A couple of our rather creative team members have created a great wire shape for Visio that displays the ComponentID at both ends of the wire instead of only once in the middle.  We have had …

Drag and Drop Images in SI5.5 SP2
04/28/2010 – 10:06 am | View Comments
Drag and Drop Images in SI5.5 SP2

There are several new features in SI5.5 SP2 that I am really excited about, in this post I will describe a few of them.  We have added the ability to drag and drop images and …

Using the Prefilter Items Option in 5.5 Reporting
01/25/2010 – 12:20 pm | View Comments
Using the Prefilter Items Option in 5.5 Reporting

I’ve been getting a lot of calls recently about a particular issue with Si 5.5 reporting. I should clarify it’s not exactly an ‘issue’ per se, (there is a very easy resolution – just …

Moving a Server is Easy in SI5.5
01/05/2010 – 3:42 pm | View Comments
Moving a Server is Easy in SI5.5

With SI5.5, server moves are the easiest they have ever been!

STEP 1)  The first step is to check in all Projects and log off all users from your current SI5.5 server.
STEP 2)  The second step is to back …

Projects Won’t Open in the Text Interface
12/09/2009 – 2:17 pm | View Comments
Projects Won’t Open in the Text Interface

Issue: You attempt to open an SI5.5 project in the Text interface and the interface does not open.  No error, just nothing happens…crickets.
Cause: This can occur on machines that are running both SI 4 and …

Reporting an Error Message
12/03/2009 – 9:02 am | View Comments
Reporting an Error Message

The reality of using software is that you may encounter errors from time to time.  The proper reporting of an error can significantly increase the turnaround time for a resolution.  The intent of this article …