Visit
the NGA web site for info on the commercial glass business
around the country. The NGA is the co-promoter of the GlassBuild
America show, which we are proud to be a part of every year. |
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 Visit the site of
Americas Glass
Association to see what is new in the glass industry on the west
coast. This association promotes the Glass Expo West show which
is held in Las Vegas, Nevada in the Spring of every
year. |
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 USGlass,
Metal & Glazing Magazine
has bestowed their
Reader's Choice Award
upon us! The readers of this respected magazine have voted GDS
Storefront Estimating as their favorite supplier for
Fenestration Software in 2001. |
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 Check
out ComputorEdge Magazine's web site for weekly computer news, articles, and some of
the most competitive pricing around, for computer and software
products. |
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CAD and Companion
Products for
GDS
Software
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 Get
this FREE CAD program from
IMSI/Design. This Free program got a 5 Star rating from CNET
and will do an outstanding job at working with drawings and
details in the WinBidPro software to create your own shop
drawings. If you find that more power and features are needed,
you can upgrade to DoubleCAD XT Pro and get all the feature of
the latest full AutoCAD program, for a fraction of the cost!
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 AutoDesk
(the makers of AutoCAD) sells a program called AutoSketch which
can be found for around $200. A little more costly than QuickCAD
(the version it replaced)
was, but it very easy to use (for a CAD program) and plenty
powerful for creating professional shop drawings. Search for AutoSketch
on the web to find the retailer of your choice. |
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HK's What-If is a companion program to the GDS
system that is not produced by GDS. If you are interested in
full job tracking after the estimate is completed, this program
is for you. Visit the web site of the most complete
Microsoft "Excel" driven bid computation program in the glass
industry. HK's "What-if" is a perfect companion for use with the
GDS Storefront Estimating System because it accounts for, and computes,
every possible charge in a storefront bid.
HK is an authorized reseller of the simple and affordable CAD software
packages FastCAD and EasyCAD. HK also sells complete detail symbol
catalogs for selected metal vendors in the commercial glass
industry. |
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Tools and Utilities for MS
Windows |
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Get the Free Adobe PDF Reader to open any PDF
file. |
 Get
this great Shareware utility called CCleaner. This program will
help cleanup the registry and temporary files on your computer.
If your computer has slowed down over time, this may be the
ticket to get it performing better!
Download the CCleaner Installer |
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Microsoft Installer Clean Up
Utility If you have
trouble Installing or Uninstalling a GDS program, or any other
program, click the following link and select "Run" to install
the program, or "Save" to save it to your computer first, and
then install it. Once this Cleanup Utility is installed, you
should have an item under Start - All Programs, called
"Windows Install Clean Up". Run this utility and you will see a
list of programs installed on your computer. Click the program
you want to uninstall, and click "Remove". You should now be
able to Install the program you were having trouble with.
Installer
Clean Up Utility |
Get a free utility that will let you print almost anything to a
Adobe Acrobat PDF file. This utility installs a new printer
driver for Windows. When you select the PDF printer driver, and
print your document, you are prompted to enter a file name for
the PDF file and to select the folder to save it in. Once this
file is saved, you can copy, print, or even email it. |
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