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SI5.5 SP3 Now Available!
01/18/2011 – 8:18 am | Comments Off
SI5.5 SP3 Now Available!

D-Tools releases SI5.5 SP3 to all customers on January 18th, 2011. SP3 adds enhancements and bug fixes to continue support of our customers business processes.

What is proposal ready data?
12/16/2010 – 2:11 pm | Comments Off
What is proposal ready data?

At D-Tools, we define three levels of data completeness. These allow us to focus our efforts on the information our subscribers need the most, improving both response time to specific requests, as well as overall …

When MSXML Goes Bad
12/15/2010 – 7:16 am | Comments Off
When MSXML Goes Bad

Software without errors is like…well, I don’t have a clever simile for this.  We are constantly improving our software to eliminate errors that have been brought to our attention that have slipped past our testing.  …

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 …

Modifying the Project Summary
10/27/2010 – 10:23 am | Comments Off
Modifying the Project Summary

Changing the information displayed in the Project Summary section of a stock D-Tools SI5 Proposal report can be confusing for some clients.  This is mainly due to the fact that we use subreports to generate …

D-Tools SI5.5 & iPad – Putting Your Best Work Forward
10/06/2010 – 4:24 pm | Comments Off
D-Tools SI5.5 & iPad – Putting Your Best Work Forward

I’m in. I’m sold. When can we start? Those are words we as salespeople love to hear. As a system integrator and system designer, your work should speak for itself. While you of course need …

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

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

This Finish Wire shape is very similar to our Beta wire shape that shows the ComponentID at both ends. The additional function of this shape is that the line pattern and color of the shape is determined by the Type field of the wire product.

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