ECAV primary goal is getting detailed drawings done fast with very little database management or training needed. SymbolLogic’s ECAV is an engineering-based drawing template, using a process-driven project-phase workflow. Their product is large, as its website, which is full of tutorials, help documents, and instructional videos, I’ll leave it to you to explore their site in detail, as I can’t cover it all in a short article.

It does, however, require a fair amount of setup, data management, and training before drawings can be created. In fact, users could happily use both products.ĭ-tools SI is a more-encompassing sales/project-management package that heavily focuses on proposal generation, project management and other tasks, with the ability to do drawings. While their businesses and target customers definitely overlap, I wouldn’t say they are direct competitors. Two companies, D-tools and SymbolLogic, are involved in the AV/network “System Integrator” business. Other times you want to show which port is connected to which other port! Sometimes you want to depict which gadget is connected to which other gadget. This can involve both plan and elevation drawings, as well as schematic and logical flow- or connected diagrams. Many of my projects involve some sort of AV or network equipment depiction, in both logical and physical senses. I love the thought that my efforts have helped customers to design some sort of system that leads to people out in the field building real stuff. While Microsoft tends to focus its Visio efforts on business processes and flowcharting, I prefer to work on more technical applications of Visio. A lot of those solutions are engineering-related, which I find pretty cool. I do a lot of custom Visio work for various customers all over the world. And some of you might genuinely need one (or both) of these products, but not be aware of their existence! System Integrators, D-Tools, and SymbolLogic While I’ve done work for D-tools and SymbolLogic, and been paid for that work, this article isn’t part of any deal. I wanted to showcase customers that have been good to me. I’d like to add that this isn’t a paid post. I noticed that I don’t talk much about the actual Visio-based work that I do on this site, and I figured some of you might find it interesting. I thought I’d try something different today and offer up a bit of a “case-study”. If you’re interested in using Visio to create system integrator design and engineering drawings, then you’ll want to continue reading! Today I’m sharing info about some of the companies that I do custom work for.

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