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Title Blocks #1: How to Display Existing Document Information

October 21, 2008 By Visio Guy 34 Comments

Title blocks on drawings are important for many, many reasons.

If your company has created more than a small number of drawings, it’s useful to know who created them, when they were created, who updated the drawings, and when they were updated.

Often times, copies of a drawing are e-mailed or sent in printed form to customers, installers, contractors, builders, inspectors. For these recipients, contact information and drawing scale data can be of utmost importance.

As it turns out, much of the information that is imperative to title blocks is already in the drawing. Through Visio’s SmartShape features, it can automatically be extracted, eliminating the need to re-key it.

Other information that is not available by default can be entered in a central location, or extracted from existing data sources, then displayed by cleverly-constructed title block shapes.

This article is a first in a series on how you can use Visio’s built-in features, ShapeSheet capabilities and even automation code to make smart Title Block shapes that save you work.

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Filed Under: CAD, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Insert Field, Text, Title Blocks

Go 3D with Free Isometric Piping Shapes for Visio

June 25, 2008 By Visio Guy 61 Comments

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Attention process engineers!

Calling all techies who work in:

– Oil refineries
– Water treatment facilities
– Any plant that produces a product in liquid form!

For years one of Japan’s top Visio experts, Junichi Yoda, has offered his 3D Isometric Piping shapes to download for free. I’ve long loved these shapes (having studied mechanical engineering myself), and have put off far showcasing them on Visio Guy for far, far too long!

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Filed Under: CAD, Shapes Tagged With: 3D, Control Handles, isometric, piping, process engineering, SmartShapes

Bubble Revision Shapes

November 4, 2006 By Visio Guy 62 Comments

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If you use Visio for CAD-like purposes, you might need to make revisions or “AS-BUILT” modifications to your drawings from time to time. Often this is shown by drawing a squiggly cloud, or bubble, around the portion of the drawing that has been modified.

I’ve created three shapes for doing this for you to download.

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Filed Under: CAD, Shapes Tagged With: Bubbles, CAD, Custom Line Patterns, Custom Patterns, Drawing Explorer

Visio & AutoCAD

October 26, 2006 By Visio Guy 11 Comments

Read Full ArticleThere are a lot of Visio users out there, and not all of them use Visio in conjuction with AutoCAD. But for those who do; Boy! Do they use AutoCAD!! And when there’s a problem using them in conjunction with each other; Boy! Is there a problem!!

This page will try to bring together as many resources regarding Visio and AutoCAD issues as is humanly possible. I’ll keep updating it as new information comes in, so check back from time to time!

On a positive note, it looks like the AutoCAD compatibility in Visio 2007 is vastly improved! One of the experts on the subject has informed me that beta 2 of Visio 12 has solved many of the issues from previous versions of Visio.

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, CAD Tagged With: auto, AutoCAD

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