It does not look like it at first but there is some solid business advice somewhere around the end of this post.
This is my first real post since my unfortunate mishap in November. At …

First post from Ryan Brown of D-Tools certified partner Media Environment Design.

OK, for any of you who have pre-teen children and the Disney Channel, you may recognize the title of this post. If you don’t, then it really doesn’t matter. The point is this: 2008 is over. Done. Behind us. It’s time to focus on the year ahead and what we can do to improve. Improve what you might ask? Well that is entirely up to you.

Overview
Due to a bug in SI5, product dimensions (height, width, depth) always appear in imperial/US units on reports. This posting discusses how to modify a custom report to show dimensions in metric units.
Steps to modify …

You may encounter this error message when running a report on larger projects.   This is not a very common error, however,  I’ve added the solution below in case you do come across this error message.  As …

Now I know everybody is probably running around crazy trying to complete all of their holiday tasks, so I thought I’d do a quick-and-easy article for you this December. This month’s offering will only take …

Currently SI 5 does not keep a database of your Client and Contact information. In fact, all that is stored in the Client list is the name. Information like address, phone, email, etc. is stored within each individual projects and cannot be readily “re-used” on other projects. Release 5.5 (coming soon) changes all that. Before I show a sneak peak of the interface, it is important to explain the difference between a Client and Contact.

I saw this post in CE Pro today. Electronic Systems Consultants: Making Data-Driven Decisions.  I like this article for a number of reasons.

Process first.  They identified a number of areas where software (not ours BTW) could …

My name is Victor Céspedes, AutoCAD Product Engineer for D-Tools, Inc. On November 14th at our annual DTU event, I had the opportunity to demo for our attendees a new Wire Label template which allows …

As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday it may be a little harder to think about all of things we have to be thankful for, given the hits that our market has taken, the state of the economy, the mounting job losses….wait that’s not where I was going with this. Yes, it’s been a difficult year. But we’ve had difficult years before and somehow we get through it. I’m not saying that it is easy right now, because it isn’t. We have to work harder for every deal, we may have to offer additional services at no charge that we were used to charging for, or make less on every job.

Symptoms
When trying to run .exe files you may get error messages like: “Access Deny”, “Runtime error” etc..
Potential Cause
Corrupt registry settings or some third party product  (or even a virus) can change the default configuration for …

Right arm still in a cast but I have thinking a lot about the current economy and how it affects our customers.  Since I can’t blog about it at the moment I thought this post …