– Visio Shapes & Stencils

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

• Moore’s Law Visualization
  I’ve created an interesting visualization of “Moore’s Law” doublings that was inspired by a documentary I saw on YouTube. Read about it, check out the visuals, and download the source Visio file and do whatever you want with it!
• Draw the Virus with Boolean Operations!
  Learn how to build shapes using Visio’s boolean operations. We’ll join, trim, union and combine simple shapes together to form a quick but effective illustration of a Coronavirus. We’ll move shape pins and change their rotation point, and take a quick dive into the ShapeSheet as well. Finally, we’ll destroy the virus with the fragment ...
• Salesforce Schema Builder-style ERD Shapes
  Download these free Visio ERD shapes that have the look of Salesforce’s Schemabuilder tool. Based upon Microsoft’s orginal “Crow’s Foot DB Notation” shapes, these shapes have nifty new features that should make them quite useful.
• Ordered List Shapes
  Quickly build indexed lists of boxes with these convenient “ordered list shapes”. Set a starting index, and a step, and you’re done!
• 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 ...