Comments on: Circular Multi-arrows

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:06:01 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll ask her to give it a try.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:42:27 +0000

Hi Carol, To edit the text on individual arrows, you need to be subselect the shapes. Perhaps your colleague doesn't understand this? Please see: Getting a Handle on Selecting and Subselecting Visio Shapes. The colors of handles in Visio 2010 are different than previous versions, but the concepts are the same.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:16:37 +0000

Question for you — Your circular arrow works great in Visio 2010 but when one of my colleagues tried to edit the text that I had inserted in it, she wasn’t able to do so (she CAN edit the rest of the Visio diagram). Is there something special I need to include that would allow her to edit the arrow? Thanks.

By: joelwitherspoon

joelwitherspoon — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:38:22 +0000

Thanks for this.

By: grass_2k

grass_2k — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:48:56 +0000

I like it very much, i had looked for these shapes so long. Thanks very much.

By: ToddinSM

ToddinSM — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:15:56 +0000

Just found this and am VERY new to Visio. Creating a circular group of arrows is pretty intuitive. I have a perfectly sized wheel consisting of 3 arrows. However, now I want to insert text fitted into each arrow. Is there a way to do this without using the circular text generator and then trying to fit that text into the arrows?

By: sbash

sbash — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:00:36 +0000

Hi Chris (VisioGuy)!!!
So excited to find this graphic … especially loved the # of arrows feature (I needed 3). Thank you so much! I will definitely be back to visit your site.
Stephanie

By: HB

HB — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:52:26 +0000

Awesome! Thanks!

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:16:02 +0000

Hi Jason,

You can draw an “almost circle” with the Pencil tool. You have to gesture an arc while you are drawing with the tool, and you will get a circular arc. Try it – you’ll get it after a few times.

Once you have your unclosed circle, you can add an arrowhead using the Line Format options.

The resulting shape will be “1D”, meaning it has a start- and end-handle, which might be awkward. If you want it to behave a bit more normally, just select it, then choose Shape > Operations > Combine. This will make the shape “2D”, so that it resizes more like a box.

Cheers,

Chris

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:38:54 +0000

VisioGuy, I just downloaded your addon and it is working well. thank you! I am looking for a very simple circular arrow that is just a single line that around and stops right before the end with an arrow tip at the end. Any ideas?

Thanks

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:26:21 +0000

M78,

They are already masters! You need to open the “Document Stencil”, then you can just drag the pre-made masters into a new stencil.

Go to File > Shapes > Show Document stencil. These are masters that are inside of the document.

By: mute78

mute78 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:42:25 +0000

Great tool! This is exactly what I was looking for. I do have one question though. I would like to add this stencil to my pre-existing stencils in visio but I’m not having any luck with that. Is there a way to incorporate that rather than opening your .vsd file, making the circular arrows then copying and pasting into the needed document? I apologize ahead of time if this is more intuitive that I’m finding it to be. Thanks in advance!

-Chris

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:48:39 +0000

Hi Tony,

As far as I can tell, Visio only allows you to apply data graphics to top-level shapes. Since the arrows are sub-shapes inside of a group, that makes it hard to apply individual data graphics to each (sub) arrow.

The shape has a lot of ShapeSheet programming that makes all of the automatic features possible. When you ungroup the shape, you break the context in which that programming works. Ie: the shape isn’t designed to be ungrouped.

Visio 2010 has the new feature of container shapes that allows shapes to be associated together without being buried inside of groups. It might be possible to re-construct this shape using containers, such that data graphics can be applied.

For now, it would be a lot of work to alter the download in this article to do what you need.

By: TonyR

TonyR — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:53:49 +0000

Hi
I’m trying to set the colors of the Circular Multi-Arrows using Color by Value, and not getting anywhere!

I can assign my (Access) data to the individual arrows in the circle, but only one of them changes the colors of all the arrows.

If I ungroup the circular arrows after setting them up, all hell breaks loose – I can’t move them and they seem to be protected in many ways which I cannot see.

Is there a way to use data to color the individual arrows, please?

By: Wombat

Wombat — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:34:08 +0000

@Rick. What exaclty can’t you see? The download file has multi-colored samples that you can copy directly.