So, why the interest in the Ellipse row? I came across a set of symbols that seemed ideal for Visio and some of the shapes had an interesting way of indicating heat settings. A series of dots from one to six. Initially I wanted to do this as a shapesheet segment, so I worked outContinue reading “Visio Ellipse Part 4”
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Visio Ellipse Part 3
Decoupling the ellipse from the shape So, it is easy to create a circle shape and move it around the page, but what is needed to create a circle and move it within a shape? The problem is that the Ellipse row created has cells based on the Height and Width of the containing shape.Continue reading “Visio Ellipse Part 3”
Visio Ellipse Part 2
Rotation So, what happens when a circle rotates? The Geometry row is unchanged, but the shape angle changes and the bounding box is at an angle. To correct the bounding box, you can do Developer > Operations > Union. Now the shape looks the same as before, but if you look at the Ellipse Row,Continue reading “Visio Ellipse Part 2”
Visio Ellipse Part 1
I needed to create a new shape that was a series of dots, from zero to six. The shape had one property that determined the number of dots. The easy way would be to create a series of circle shapes, group them and control the visibility of each dot from the group shape. I tendContinue reading “Visio Ellipse Part 1”
Graham to the Rescue
This week I was bored and decided to create a new collection of Visio shapes. It should be an easy task, some of the shapes were just block letters in a circle. This was a single shape that could be one of those four letters. Since I wanted to save the Shape Text for somethingContinue reading “Graham to the Rescue”
Why are #Visio H and Fs so Lame?
This question came up recently and though I have insisted that Visio authors mention that background pages are the Visio way, this goes into more detail. Word has had the ability to add special text at the top and the bottom of the page called Headers and Footers. They contained information like dates, page number,Continue reading “Why are #Visio H and Fs so Lame?”
Cruise runs aground
While I was creating the cruise demo, I ran into a problem removing the data source from the connected data. I had created the drawing and tried it as a data connected diagram and went back and tweaked the drawing. Since I wanted to start the demo with a clean diagram I tried to removeContinue reading “Cruise runs aground”
Techniques for creating Visio Shapes
Most Visio users barely scratch the surface when dealing with the product. I recently watched a video where a Visio expert dropped a shape on a page and then used the Text tool to create a label for the shape. All Visio shapes have a text block and there is a Text block tool ifContinue reading “Techniques for creating Visio Shapes”
Adding Shape Data to a series of new shapes
I have been playing with Visio Visualization in Power BI and the first step is to create a Visio drawing. Basically it is a bunch of shapes, but I need to add Shape Data to the new shapes, basically the key that will link the shape to the row of data in Excel. I couldContinue reading “Adding Shape Data to a series of new shapes”
Removing unwanted properties from a collection of masters
In addition to cleaning up how the masters looked, I also had masters that contained user and custom (AKA Shape Data) properties that were no longer needed. Again VBA was useful. So I used the following code to Public Sub CleanMasters() Dim vsoMaster As Visio.Master Dim vsoMasterCopy As Visio.Master Dim vsoShape As Visio.Shape For EachContinue reading “Removing unwanted properties from a collection of masters”
