Welcome to the Shapes Page!
Here you’ll find links to all shape-related articles on Visio Guy, as well as links to other Visio shape-related resources!
Visio Shapes – General
- ShapeSource- Shapes, stencils, templates and add-ons from long-time Visio experts Visimation. This site offers free and for-purchase Visio content and tools.
- Visio Information Stencils & Templates- John Marshall's links to Visio shapes and stencils
Visio Shapes – Engineering
- Isometric Piping Shapes for Visio- 3D isometric piping shapes, with isometric fonts and glueing capabilities.
- Visio Electrical Shapes from Sandrila Ltd.- Visio shapes and symbols for domestic and light industrial electrical installations.
Visio Shapes – Hobby
- Knitting Symbol Stencils- The String or Nothing website offers a set of knitting stencils containing a basic shape set, along with increases and decreases, and cables.
- Woodworking Shop Design: Visio Tools- Harvey Chute's classic stencil for organizing your shop includes shapes such as: bandsaw, drill press, jointer, lathe, table saw, mitersaw, and more!
Visio Shapes – Network
- ADC - Krone- Free Krone stencils, provided by Visimation.
- Altima NetZoom- You probably won't find a more extensive and thorough provider of Visio network shapes!
- Blue Coat- A set of four stencils, containing 229 shapes Blue Coat-related Visio networking master shapes.
- Cisco scale and block devices- Cisco scale and block devices
- Cisco Visio Shapes- A whole slew of Cisco equipment stencils...from Cisco.
- LAN MapShot Custom Stencils- Add custom stencils for Cisco switches, routers, and hubs to your LAN MapShot application for a more detailed display of your network infrastructure. FREE Cisco Stencils.
- Microsoft (Softricity) SoftGrid Visio Stencil- Diagram your application virtualization systems using these Visio shapes for SoftGrid clients, various server components and individual shapes for creating your own objects.
- MTMnet, Inc.Visio Icons Page- Free stencils of equipment from: 3Com, Cisco, Extreme, Adtran, Foundry Network and Juniper Networks.
- Packeteer Network Equipment Shapes- 28 nicely-drawn Packeteer Visio network master shapes
- SCCM 2007 Visio Stencils- Stencils for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with the Operations Manager 2007 look and feel, by Cameron Fuller.
- System Center Operations Manager 2007 Visio Stencils- Visio stencils for Operations Manager 2007 for creating OpsMgr 2007 diagrams.
- Visio Guy: Network Shapes- Our very own Network Shape offerings
- VisioCafe- Lots of manufacturer-specific Visio network shapes - for free!
- Zeus ZXTM Appliances- Thanks from the ZXTM KnowledgeHub team!
Visio Shapes – Plan View
- Woodworking Shop Design: Visio Tools- Harvey Chute's classic stencil for organizing your shop includes shapes such as: bandsaw, drill press, jointer, lathe, table saw, mitersaw, and more!
Visio Shapes – SharePoint
- SharePoint Wireframe Drawing- Wireframe Visio drawing for MOSS 2007, with shapes that you can reposition and modify for your own sites.
- Visio template for SharePoint 2003- A Visio template and stencil for designing SharePoint 2003 portals and sites. The link takes you to the download page, which is complete with instructions!
- Visio template for SharePoint 2007 (and MOSS)- A Visio template and stencil for designing SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 portals and sites. The link takes you to the download page, which is complete with instructions!
Visio Shapes – Wireframes, Website layout, IA
- SharePoint Wireframe Drawing- Wireframe Visio drawing for MOSS 2007, with shapes that you can reposition and modify for your own sites.
- Visio Wireframe Shapes- Michael Angeles has a few stencils for designing web-site wireframes.
- Visio Wireframe Stencil- Michael Angeles has a few stencils for designing web-site wireframes.
Visio Shapes Articles
- Extreme Scales in Visio Join me as I STRESS TEST Visio’s drawing scale features and investigate what happens when you try to fit the Solar System on standard office paper!
- Hex Snap & Glue Shapes If you’ve ever needed to snap shapes together in a hexagonal pattern, then you’ve come to the right place!
- Radial List Shape Download this innovative set of smart shapes that let you create a list of arc segments that can be easily edited and rearranged!
- Word Equation to Visio to SVG Read about my investigation and partial solution for importing Word math equations into Visio, and converting them to a state that they can then be exported to SVG.
- Calculator with Log SmartShape Download this free Calculator SmartShape that can preserve a history of your calculations!
- Visio Radial Grid v2 If you enjoyed the first version of the Visio Radial Grid shape, well I’ve got a new version for your enjoyment and productivity enhancement! Overview At the end of the article about the first version of this shape, I added a bullet list of TODO items. I couldn’t resist implementing them, so here we are, a few ...
- Visio Radial Grid Download this free SmartShape that will help you arrange your shapes in a circular pattern!
- World Cup 2018 Bracket and Spreadsheet It’s that time of four-year again, when (most of) the world goes nuts over a bunch of guys running around kicking a ball! Ideally, I would have posted this article a week or two ago, but, well, I had a lot of real work to do. Boo hoo. Hopefully I can get this in under the ...
- Visio 2D, 3D and Virtual Reality You will soon be able to use Visio to create 3D scenes that you can walk through using mixed reality hardware!
- NHL Team Logo Visio Shapes Download a set of NHL Visio shapes and learn about Visio’s data-linking features. Or just monitor standings and manage office betting pools graphically, if you’d rather!
