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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.

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.
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.

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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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.

Get the Free Adobe PDF Reader to open any PDF file.
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

CAD Viewer v7 from Evolution Computing is a FREE CAD viewing tool that will open any of the DXF and/or DWG drawings from the GDS software and let you view and print them. Use this tool if you are having trouble with the built-in shopdrawing tool in the v14 program, or the CAD tool in the v15 program. Since the GDS software creates the CAD files for you, this tool will always let you view and print them.
If you like this tool, you might also like their full featured CAD programs, EasyCAD and FastCAD. These are both very powerful and easy to use CAD programs.
Go to the CAD Viewer page at Evolution Computing to download the viewer tool.
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.
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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