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AV Engineering Diagrams with Symbol Logic ECAV

November 2, 2021 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

Today I’m sharing info about some of the companies that I do custom work for. If you’re interested in using Visio to create system integrator design and engineering drawings, then you’ll want to continue reading!

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Filed Under: Add-ins & Tools, AV Equipment, Shapes, Tools, Visio 2016 Tagged With: plan view, products, rack diagram, schematic, system integrator

Simple Cabling Shape with Length Reporting

June 6, 2016 By Visio Guy 5 Comments

cable-thumbIf you use Visio to create scaled plan views that include electrical equipment, you may have a need to rough-out actual, to-scale cable paths–and even get accurate estimates as to how much cabling you’ll need. This article explores just how you can go about it!

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, CAD, Power User, Shapes, Visio Essentials Tagged With: cables, cabling, Insert Field, Text, text block, wiring

A SmartShape is Worth 1000 Symbols

September 22, 2008 By Visio Guy 9 Comments

The promise of the Visio SmartShape is that one single shape can replace an entire army of symbols.

With a little bit of parameterization, we can clear out the redundancy in our symbol libraries, thereby simplifying maintenance for our developers, and ease-of-use for our customers.

Today’s article will demonstrate just how Visio SmartShapes can do that, and we’ll teach you how to conjure up some of the behind-the-scenes magic that makes it happen!

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, Development, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Parameterize, ShapeSheet;SmartShapes

Create Better-looking, More-efficient SmartShapes

August 9, 2008 By Visio Guy 10 Comments

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Attractive, realistic-looking Visio equipment shapes don’t have to be heavy and inefficient.

In this article, we’ll look at some innovative A/V equipment shapes from D-Tools that offer the win-win scenario of good-looking and light weight.

We’ll tear these SmartShapes apart and show how you can use custom line patterns and creative shadow techniques to add pizzazz to your shapes, without adding bloat!

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, Development Tagged With: A/V, Artistic Effects, Custom Patterns, Fill Format, Illustration, Power User, Shadows

Visio Microphone Shape

June 18, 2008 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

Read Full ArticleWapperdude submitted this “mike” shape to Visio Guy, for us to pass on to our readers.

According to WD, the inspiration came as follows: I saw a request for audio symbols in the Visio forum, had this dumb 1998 mike shape, sent it to school and now it’s smarter.

So for you A/V folks out there in Visio Land, here’s a new SmartShape for your diagramming enjoyment!

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, Shapes Tagged With: A/V, Color, Formulas, Multi-shapes, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes

“Laser” Shape

May 8, 2008 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

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Recently, I was digging through some old projects, when I stumbled upon a Visio SmartShape that is loads of fun, and perhaps even slightly useful!

Years ago, I created a demo for one of Microsoft’s marketing groups. One of the shapes is a laser show projection shape and was used in a scaled drawing of a baseball stadium that was to be configured for a software trade show party rock concert.

If you do any kind of system integration, especially stage-layout, event wiring diagrams or something similar, you might find this shape useful. But that’s not the interesting part…

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, Electrical & Electronic, Shapes, Video Tagged With: A/V, Laser, Projector, Scale, SmartShapes

Audio Visual Components Shapes

December 15, 2006 By Visio Guy 17 Comments

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Through the VGOBN (Visio Good Ol’ Boys Network) I recently received a finely-crafted Audio-Visual Shapes Visio stencil, full of shapes that you can use to layout your home theater wiring projects. The stencil is comprised of various terminal connectors, such as RCA Audio and RCA Video terminals, as well as various shapes for the back-plate and functional groups.

Many thanks to Tom Underhill for these shapes. Tom is a very smart engineer who used to work for Visio Corporation, and now does incredible things for Microsoft. You are welcome to send Tom praise and comments at “t-under-hill@g-mail.com” but remove all three of the hyphens first.

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, Electrical & Electronic, Featured Articles, Shapes Tagged With: A/V, Network, Right-Click Actions, SmartShapes

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