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You are here: Home / Visio Content / Shapes / CAD / Go 3D with Free Isometric Piping Shapes for Visio

Go 3D with Free Isometric Piping Shapes for Visio

June 25, 2008 By Visio Guy 57 Comments

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Attention process engineers!

Calling all techies who work in:

– Oil refineries
– Water treatment facilities
– Any plant that produces a product in liquid form!

For years one of Japan’s top Visio experts, Junichi Yoda, has offered his 3D Isometric Piping shapes to download for free. I’ve long loved these shapes (having studied mechanical engineering myself), and have put off far showcasing them on Visio Guy for far, far too long!

Sample Piping System Included

Yoda includes a sample drawing that you can download and play with, to get a feel for how the shapes should be used:

sample-isometric-piping-drawing

Shapes for Every Perspective

The stencil contains 74 action-packed shapes. Here’s a look at what you get:

isometric-valves

Valves, Reducers and Expanders

isometric-joints

S and L Joints

isometric-shapes

Other Isometric Goodies

You can download these wonderful shapes here:

Download “Visio shapes and stencil for piping isometrics” Downloaded 35072 times –

Edit: 2009.11.11 link updated to Japanese mirror site, as the old Geocities link was broken or gone.

Cool Extras

In addition to the piping shapes, he’s included some nifty isometric cube shapes. The samples below were all made from one master, simply by dragging on the control handles.

isometric-cube-shape

Similarly, the isometric cylinder shape can take numerous forms:

isometric-cylinder-shape

He’s also included dimension lines so that you can add scale and measurements to your isometric piping diagrams:

isometric-fonts

Junichi’s web site includes isometric fonts that you can download for free, along with complete instructions on how to get them to work with the piping shapes:

  • How to Install Isometric Fonts
  • How to Set Up Isometric Fonts for Isometric Dimensions
  • How to Use Dimensions

Edit: 2009.11.11 link updated to Japanese mirror site, as the old Geocities links were broken or gone.

Ease of Use

By gluing joint-shapes to valves, you can easily reposition the shapes, without worrying about re-drawing the piping.

The red handles in the illustration above indicate that the elbow joint is glued at both ends to the valves. When the valves are moved, the joint follows along!

Let’s all give Junichi Yoda a big round of applause, and a heart-felt Thank You for creating this cool set of shapes!

Edit: 2009.01.13 – Stefan, one of our Visio Guy forum members, submitted some fantastic Visio sample drawings that use these isometric piping Visio shapes. Have a look at this newsgroup post.

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Comments

  1. PIPPIG says

    August 4, 2017 at 8:15 am

    This nice toolset appears not compatible with 2016 VISIO version anymore.
    Is there an updated version somewhere?

    Many thanks

  2. PintoBean says

    August 4, 2017 at 6:38 pm

    Works fine with my Visio 2016.
    had to change file block settings in trust center.
    (unchecked box to use)

  3. Vik says

    November 11, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    Hi,

    I would like to shrink the size of the valves. How am I to do so? Please advice.

    Regards,
    Vik

  4. Barend says

    May 18, 2018 at 6:22 pm

    Is it still possible to download these piping shapes?

  5. Visio Guy says

    May 24, 2018 at 3:53 pm

    Hi Barend,

    The download button wasn’t working. I’ve fixed it now — it’s a redirect to the site that has the content.

  6. Roman says

    April 7, 2019 at 9:15 am

    Any chance to update download link? Thanks.

  7. Visio Guy says

    April 8, 2019 at 7:34 pm

    Hi Roman,

    I found where they moved to, and have updated the download link!

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