I have been playing with Visio since 93 when customer support was on CompuServe. With Visio, I could create Business diagrams easily. Before that I was creating the diagrams by using code, including COBOL. Around version 3, Visio was the first non MS company to fully implement VBA, including the macro recorder. So since then,Continue reading “History of Visio Visual Section Shapes”
Category Archives: Shapes
Ugly Visio Shapes
Not all Visio shapes are pretty when they wander away from normal standards or have unnecessary embellishments, the shapes become ugly. With Visio shapes, even the shapes can be internally beautiful. Unnecessary code is ugly because it is distracting Electrical engineering shapes The Electrical engineering shapes were redone. I was interested in electronics in highContinue reading “Ugly Visio Shapes”
Further Around the Bend
If you want to fill a shape, the basic rule is that you need consecutive line segments that form a closed loop. You can also go into the shapesheet and set the NoFill cell of the Geometry section to False. In this case, the numbers are the shapesheet row numbers, the green arrows show theContinue reading “Further Around the Bend”
US Map
Earlier this month, someone asked if there was a Visio shape of the US segmented by states. The user wanted to add data to the states (Data Connectivity) and colour the states depending on that data (Data Graphics – Colour by Value). My usual recommendation is to find a suitable image in SVG format. IContinue reading “US Map”
Refining the Shapesheet Section template
Now that I have put the Braille shapes to bed, back to the Shapesheet Section template with a quicky post. I started the Shapesheet Section stencil to help with documentation that involves the Shapesheet. I am constantly saying Visio shapes are more than clip art. When it comes to adding Shapesheet sections to documentation, VisioContinue reading “Refining the Shapesheet Section template”
Visio Braille Part 2
Before posting my Braille shape, I decided to embellish it first. The original shape was a single shape that had a Geometry section (Ellipse) for each of the dots (pips) and user cells User.Dot1-Dot6 contained the list of characters the shape represented. The Ellipses are independent of the shape and positioned by the X,Y ofContinue reading “Visio Braille Part 2”
Visio Braille
I was getting withdrawal symptoms from not blogging about Visio or creating a new Visio shape for a while. I have not done this all year. Visio is a graphics package and it may seem strange that I created a shape for the blind. The shape is simple and is a good example of howContinue reading “Visio Braille”
Visio Title Block
Recently a user asked in the Answers forum about Title Blocks and I figured that, that would be a good beginner’s topic to talk about. The user was familiar with AutoCAD and title blocks, but was having trouble with the concept in Visio. Most Engineering / Architectural drawings have a concept called a Title Block,Continue reading “Visio Title Block”
Is it Metric?
I am working on a blog post about Title Blocks and doing some research on adding a Scale value to a Visio text block and came across an interesting post by the shape miester Visio Guy (AKA Chris) (my usual research method is to review blogs by the Visio MVPs) Detect-drawing-units-in-the-shapesheet In the comments, oneContinue reading “Is it Metric?”
Editing a Visio EE master – Part 2
So, now on to creating the shape… These is just some of the switches that the O.P. was talking about. They all have the same pattern, two contact points, a diagonal line indicating the connection and then a control symbol indicating how the switch is controlled/triggered. The shapes have three common points. A, the hingeContinue reading “Editing a Visio EE master – Part 2”
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