Use project notes and comments to record generic information about a project or make timestamped notes.

Recording general data for your projects

Duplicate a group of icons, including connections, text blocks & more!

Duplicating a Group of Icons

How to convert your PDF to an image file and upload it to D3M.

How to upload a PDF

Save time when working on a project by duplicating a single icon.

Duplicate an icon

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Tips, tricks & guides for all your diagramming needs!

Design and document network solutions

Select multiple items at a time and move them all together

Nudging Objects / Icons

Easily add all your needed icons onto your diagram.

Add icons to a diagram

Organize your diagram by repositioning labels of object in diagrams or hiding them when they are not necessary.

Managing labels in your diagrams

Joining equipment with lines is an important part of a network diagram.

Create a connection between icons

Learn how link routing works so that you can more effectively tame unwieldy connections.

How link routing works

​It is easy for connections in a network diagram to look messy. Fix your connections using our simple reshaping tools.

Reshaping connections

Duplicate a single icon, a group of icons, connections, text blocks & more!

Duplicating items in your design

What is the difference between Areas, Groups, and Layers? Why use one over the other?

Areas vs Groups vs Layers

Use areas to create sites, showcase options and delineate your D3M diagram for faster navigation & smart filtering.

Create an area

Use groups to visually mark one or more items or make it easy to keep a set of items together.

Create a group

Use layers to differentiate phases, sites and more.

Create a layer

You can lock anything within a project while still maintaining the ability to edit those items

Lock Icons, Areas, Groups, Text, etc.

Design Basics

Use D3M to record the data and settings for icons and connections.

Add properties to icons and connections

Use D3M's autofill feature to save time and manage large amounts of devices. Set radio IDs, phone extensions IP addresses & more.

Autofill data in D3M's inventory list

Learn how to bring serial numbers from any spreadsheet app into D3M.

Import serial numbers into D3M's inventory list

Format project notes, project comments, and project sharing with markdown

Formatting Text in D3M

Keep your project's diagrams in sync using the library's project inventory sync tool.

D3M Sync Tool

Represent multiple devices with a single icon to avoid dragging out a large number of similar devices onto your diagram.

Change the quantity of a device

Document Technical Information

Create a new icons (new parts), change ports and add properties.

Create a custom icon

Quickly create an icon based off a pre-existing one in your library.

Create an icon from an existing icon

Save a selection of icons to your library for use in future projects.

Copy and paste from one project to another

Add icons from your own library to an organization library, allowing other users to access and use icons that you have created.

Share icons with your colleagues

Custom Icons

Learn how to filter icons in order to find what you're looking for more efficiently

Filter Icons and Bundles

Jumpstart a new project or show an alternative option using project duplication.