AV Design Software and System Design Features
D-Tools offers comprehensive AV design software with detailed engineering drawings, industry-standard symbols, and draw-first capabilities integrated with Visio and AutoCAD to synchronize bills of materials and drawings, while its D-Tools Cloud platform simplifies system design through visual quoting, drag-and-drop layouts, and real-time customer collaboration.
Streamline and Enhance Your System Design with D-Tools
From marked up floor plans to precise engineering drawings, D-Tools offers platforms to boost your system designs.
System Integrator
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. Native integration with Visio and AutoCAD makes it easy to produce professional drawings that improve collaboration and project accuracy.
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.
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.
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.
D-Tools Cloud
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
System Integrator: AutoCAD Integration
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 the 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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