Comments on: Faking 3D in Visio

By: Mr Askani

Mr Askani — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:04:08 +0000

Legendary! Thanks for that tutorial. I’m just getting into the swing of using Visio for diagramming now, and I’m really enjoying using your site and following these cool tut’s.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:50:36 +0000

Hi Jason, You can draw isometric tubes, then cut them and use transparency similar to the techniques described in this article. This article + video might be of interest in making the tube sides properly touch the circular openings: http://www.visguy.com/2009/12/10/faking-3d-in-visio/#comments Making SmartShapes that can have inner- and outer diameters changed would probably also be possible, but quite a bit more difficult!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:50:46 +0000

I wanted to do a similar thing with an isometric tube. Is there a way to make a tube shape that when you put longer thinner tubes through it the overlaps are always correct? Resizable and multiple tubes within tubes would be the great.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:12:46 +0000

Hi Mike,

That’s a pretty broad question. Does it related to this post somehow? You might want to try out our discussion forums at http://www.visguy.com/vgforum

Cheers,

Chris

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:00:38 +0000

How can i make Stencils with Visio 2010?

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:07:06 +0000

I don’t think he meant that “fake” was a bad thing, it was fecicious. Don’t think there was any requirement for isometric either. I thought the drawing tips were cool!

By: GregD

GregD — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:13:36 +0000

Instead of fake/approximate 3d grids, why not use one that is exactly Isometric? VisioCafe.com has true Isometric template pages for exactly this type of drawing. The one called ISO is letter, and ISO-A4 is metric.
http://www.visiocafe.ca/templates.htm

By: Al Edlund

Al Edlund — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:59:27 +0000

Awesome…