Comments on: Multi-Earth Shape

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:57:11 +0000

Kevin asked about how I created the four geographical views in the first place. Well, I actually traced bitmaps in a painstaking way that I wouldn't expect normal humans to subject themselves to. Here's more info on some of the techniques I use: Importing Images as Backgrounds for Tracing There are probably various sources of vector clip-art or bitmap-to-vector converters that could be used as well. The trick is to get them into Visio in a usable format, which isn't always so easy.

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By: Quintin Thom

Quintin Thom — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:16:57 +0000

Really like your site. Where I can obtain/buy your some of your shapes, I really like these world maps. Yrs Quintin

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:49:40 +0000

One more thing, Kevin,

The article: “The Hidden World of Visio Shapes” talks about the various methods of showing/hiding Visio shapes. You can read it here: http://www.visguy.com/2006/09/05/the-hidden-world-of-visio-shapes/

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:48:15 +0000

Hi Kevin,

There are four different shapes inside of a group. Each of these shapes contains all the points to make the different global views. GeometryN.NoShow cells in every Geometry section of each shape control the visibility of each sub-shape. They react to a setting at the group level — see the User.isHidden cell in the sub-shapes to see how to reference a property at the group level.

- Chris

By: Kevin Wyman

Kevin Wyman — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:58:54 +0000

Nice shape! Very intriguing effort. How do you go about creating the four main views? Are these separate images that are hidden based on the user selection? (I tried to edit the master to see the various views but it only appeared to be three grouped shapes: big blue circle, new world map, and green outline). I am trying to do something similar so I am trying to go to school with your shapes.