It started with Visio - D-Tools Forum

Head Tool · 04-06-2007, 05:45 PM

Here is some ancient history on how I got hooked on Visio and started this company. These are a series of articles I wrote in 1998 for an online magazine called Design-Drawing. Design-Drawing went down sometime in 2000 or so but these articles live on.

The first one was called Colored Dots and Sleepless Nights. I am sure a lot of integrators can empathize with the central theme. http://www.design-drawing.com/visio/digitoola.htm

Here is something on how to draw smart rack shapes by the numbers.
http://www.design-drawing.com/visio/DrawNo.htm

Here is something about how to create Auto scale fonts. http://www.design-drawing.com/visio/autoscale.htm

This information is kind of dated but it clearly illustrates the initial ideas that still resonate through the company today.

Adam

AVIR · 05-25-2010, 06:10 PM

None of those links work anymore.

JohnVisioMVP · 10-12-2010, 01:12 PM

It looks like the site is down and the design-drawing.com name is up for sale.
Those were good articles and would not count them as being dated.

fryeguy · 10-13-2010, 09:33 PM

If only Visio shapes were as easy to work with as AutoCAD blocks...
Still dreaming of the release of SI6 when I have decided: a) to upgrade from SI5.5 SP1 and b) to start using AutoCAD with D-Tools again.