System Design

Streamline and Enhance Your System Design with D-Tools

From marked up floor plans to precise engineering drawings, D-Tools offers the ultimate platforms to boost your system designs.

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Detailed Engineering Drawings & Project Documentation

Create detailed, engineered drawings—including single-line system layouts, plan views, rack elevations, and schematics—to ensure clear communication with both internal teams and external stakeholders through native integration with Visio and AutoCAD, making it easy to produce professional drawings that improve collaboration and project accuracy.

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Industry Standard Shapes and Symbols

Leverage D-Tools' extensive library of industry-specific Visio shapes and AutoCAD blocks to create accurate, professional drawings that are easily understood by all industry trades, enhancing project clarity and communication.

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Draw First Capabilities

D-Tools SI allows you to design your system layout first, automatically generating the bill of materials (BOM) based on your drawings. This draw-first capability saves time and boosts accuracy, streamlining the quoting process by ensuring that every component is accounted for directly from your designs.

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BOM and Drawing Synchronization

D-Tools SI’s native integration with Visio and AutoCAD links drawing items directly to the bill of materials (BOM). This ensures your BOM and drawings are always in sync, providing greater accuracy, reducing manual updates, and streamlining the project workflow.

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System Design Made Simple with D-Tools Cloud

Streamline your workflow with intuitive tools for visual quoting, drag-and-drop layouts, and real-time collaboration—designed to make system design faster and simpler than ever.

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Visual Quoting

Generate scope and budget, validate designs, and collaborate in real-time with customers, making them an integral part of the decision-making process.

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Image Quoting

Effortlessly upload images and use drag-and-drop functionality to add devices directly to photos, helping customers visualize how their systems will look in their environment.

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Browser-based Design

Easily map and calculate wire and cable paths directly within plan views, and estimate per-foot costs for materials and other items using allowances. Annotate drawings and photos with accurate device placement, dimensions, field notes, and more.

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Interconnect Diagrams

Visually connect devices across systems, phases, and locations using an intuitive drag-and-drop canvas built into D-Tools Cloud. Keep designs accurate, teams aligned, and connections clear from proposal through installation without CAD tools or spreadsheets.

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Visual Clarity and Connection Across Every System

Interconnect Diagrams transform how integrators visualize and communicate system connections. Built directly into D-Tools Cloud, this interactive canvas lets you see how every device links across systems, phases, and locations — without leaving the platform. Eliminate confusion and miscommunication between sales, design, and field teams by creating a single, accurate visual reference that stays synced with your catalog, proposals, and project documentation. From quoting to installation, everyone works from the same connected view — ensuring what’s planned is what gets delivered.
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Visio Integration

Enhance project visualization and documentation

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Single-line System Layouts
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Easily place equipment from your D-Tools project file onto the drawing surface for clear and straightforward communication with installers.

Plan Views
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Showcase the strategic placement of equipment within a room or building by importing .dwg files or creating native plan view drawings directly in Visio.

Rack Elevations
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Provide clients with a visual perspective of the finished system, especially beneficial for showcasing higher-end systems with custom cabinetry. 

Schematics
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Ensure precise connections and generate detailed installation reports for wire schedules, checklists, and labels, assuring a seamless installation process.

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AutoCAD Integration

Streamline project design by enabling precise, detailed documentation

Plan Views

Utilize CAD plan view shapes with unique capabilities to assign shapes to specific categories or sub-categories, granting complete control over the overall look and feel. 

Rack Elevations

Showcase the finished system from a point-of-view perspective, enabling clients to vividly visualize the system's placement and layout. 

Schematics

Ensure accurate connections and instill customer confidence in the system's functionality, with the added support of detailed installation reports. 
Integrated Product Library

Power your system design with industry's largest, most accurate product database

The Integrated Product Library includes more than 1.6 million products from more than 1,200 brands with integrator-level pricing. It is not just a repository but a foundation for every workflow in D-Tools software, enhancing quoting, design, and installation accuracy.
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