Overview
This explains how to insert a FreeTools drawing into a D-Tools SIX Project.
Details
This feature allows the user to keep the original graphics in the project while layering specific product and project information. This can be a very useful feature for salesperson and client driven projects.
There are two ways to get a FreeTools project into the D-Tools SIX application. In Visio or in the Project Explorer
In Visio
- Start a new project in the Project Explorer
- Start a new Visio file for that project

- Go to the Add-Ins>>D-Tools>>Insert Drawing Pages menu on the Visio toolbar/ribbon

- Browse to the FreeTools drawing you would like to insert and check the pages you would like to be inserted into D-Tools. D-Tools will add the pages you checked to the existing drawing pages.

- Right click on each symbol from the pages you just inserted and choose D-Tools>>Link to Product. This will open a new UI and allow you to assign a specific product to that symbol.

In the Project Explorer
- Create a new project, or use an existing project. In the bottom left of the screen there is an area to add, edit the files that are attached to the project.
- Click Add and browse to the FreeTools project you want to add.

- Open the file up, you will get a dialog asking if you want to convert this drawing, click Yes. This will turn the FreeTools drawing into a D-Tools drawing
- Assign the symbols in the drawing to specific product data by right clicking on the symbol and chose D-Tools>>Link to Product
Caveats
Currently you can only assign a single product at a time to a specific shape. Future versions will allow the user to assign multiple shapes with the same product.
Currently the project information in FreeTools does not come over into a D-Tools project. Future versions of D-Tools will address this issue.