Not sure what rack units have to do with this article? What is a SourceServer?

Your tool is great.

But I have to change the SourceServer with 1u or 2u Rackservers and I found no way to do this.
Do you have some suggestions for me?

Tom

The login/register page should have opened in a new tab in your browser. Once you’re registered and logged in, you can get the download from the original page (this page).

You can check the Meta section at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar to see if you’re logged in. If it says “Log In”, then you’re not logged in.

I was trying to get some stencils and it made me sign up for a WordPress site, I got the login information and it doesn’t take you to where you get the stencils..

any ideas?
Brian Tinsley

The server comes from Visio’s server stencil, but the tool uses the one in the left-most squircle-box. This kept the code a bit simpler.

I think my plan was to see what the response was, then sell some sort of full-featured cheap-ware utility later. Now that I look at the numbers for this post, I think I should have done that already!

Where do you pull the original Server master from? That way we can add in any other type of device there.

Z

I know that in most of the forums and msdn itself, they say you cant have more than 5 icons. But theres a way to add… if anyone knows, please share it…

Bob

Is this possible?
Or at least can you unlock the source server shape?

Thank you very much for your great Server shape customisation tool! Is there any way of automatically generating the associated shadow?

While grouping works fine as a quick solution, there are a few problems with grouping:

1. You bury the custom properties/shaped data fields that come with the server shape.
2. You lose the ability to easily edit and move the text that is attached to the server shape.
3. The alignment box of the server shape gets bigger, and less “grid-friendly”, which can make it more complicated to align the shape with other servers and network equipment.
4. You haven’t created a unique master that can be easily added to a stencil and re-used

These aren’t huge problems, and if you know how to sub-select shapes inside of groups (many users don’t know), they can be overcome. This tool makes a “real server shape” with your own icon, with all of the conveniences that go along with it.