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While Visio is heavily used for flowcharting, network diagramming, org charting and other connected diagramming tasks, it also has a fair amount of capabilities that overlap the CAD arena.
One of the best-kept secrets in this area is the ability to draw tangent lines between two curves.
Today we’re going to expose the secret and show you how to do it!
Tweet, tweet! Twitter is getting REAL BIG. No one is sure exactly what it is or…why. Attention deficit disorder gone nuts? The best source of at-the-moment trends? Customer data goldmine? Are we turning into chirping …
Learn about this free set of user experience shapes that will help you to illustrate your ux research plan and show the types of deliverables you will produce.
I Want You, Dynamic connector!
When I’m creating Visio-based graphical solutions, I frequently run into the situation where I want to send all of the connectors on a page to the back.
There are a number of …
Sometimes people ask me questions about network diagrams that aren’t so much about Visio as they are about how the diagrams should look.
A lot of people know that they need to create a network diagram, but …
I’ve been working on a new multi-shape that you will hopefully find useful for presentations and process documentation. It should be on offer within then next week or two.
As I was building it, I was …
Download this VBA code that will help you to quickly generate Get, Let and Set properties for your VBA classes.
Watch a great video about one man’s experiences using Visio and developing visual solutions on top of Visio.
Download a nifty “volume-control” Visio SmartShape that cleverly packs increments into a compact format to offer higher control resolution with lower visual messiness!
Refresh your Data each and every time you open your Visio 2007 Professional Data-Connected Diagramme
Learn about the Visio viewer, its capabilities, and how you can develop solutions that incorporate it as a Visio-viewing component!
I was reading What goes up, must come down! on the Sankey Diagrams blog and it got me thinking about a radial presentation for Sankey diagrams.
Is there a case or need for radially-oriented Sankey diagrams? …
Learn twelve text-handling techniques for creating Visio SmartShapes with text that behaves well!
Get vague details on Microsoft’s plans for beta- and release versions of Office 14, or Office 2010, as it will be known, and download a Visio timeline that illustrates the dates.
It’s kind of Pi Day today, so we are celebrating by talking about a variety of circle- and angle-related end-user and shape-developer related topics! Read and learn about all things round and Visio!
Get information about what has been updated and fixed in Service Pack 2 for Visio 2007, and learn where you can get the new bits!
Michel Laplace has started a new Visio expert site for French speakers. Vous le trouverez ici…
Saveen Reddy got wind of Run Circles Around Your Text With the Circle-text Title SmartShape and took it a step further.
Using his fancy-schmancy, multi-colored gradient approach to Visio graphics, he created a pretty neat (and …
Learn how Visio shapes are glued together, different types of glue, and how to traverse paths through a Visio process flow diagram using automation and VBA code.
Find the best places on the web to watch Visio-related content and learn the easy way–by watching Visio videos!
Download a sticky-note Visio smart shape. You can type a message into it, give it a title, and collapse it to save space in your drawing, but still let folks know that there is more to read!
It’s nice to let your audience know where they are in a document, and how much further until the end. This is especially true if your Visio document does double-duty as a presentation.
A progress bar-style …
Learn about a new add-in for Visio 2007 Professional from Microsoft. This Add-In will help you plan your hardware utilization by generating before- and after detailed views of your racks and servers.
Everybody knows (and loves?) the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
It has great graphics and an addictive format that you could use to add spice to your PowerPoint presentations.
And since a lot of …
Download a Visio file packed with sample VBA code that will help you understand not only connectors and connecting in Visio, but also path analysis as well!
Download a Visio shape that resolves the conflict between the straight and the curved, between circle and square. With the Visio Squircle, your diagrams will look modern and retro at the same time!
The other day, I was poking around my system, opening .dlls and .exes with Notepad to see if anything interesting popped up.
One file buried in Visio’s installation directory hit paydirt: visaflfn.dll
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