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Amazon AWS Visio Shapes

January 31, 2018 By Visio Guy 5 Comments

If you work with Amazon’s AWS services, you’ll likely need to create architecture diagrams to assist in your planning and maintenance. Amazon provides a set of shapes for use with Visio, but I’ve added my touch and provided a new and improved set for you to download!

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Filed Under: Network, Shapes, Visio 2010, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Amazon, Architecture, AWS, Database

Fuzzy Shadow on Text Oddity

December 20, 2017 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

Visio 2013/16 and newer have added wonderful formatting effects. But how they modify your shapes can be a bit strange. I’ve figured out a few of the odd cases and would like to share my findings with you!

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Filed Under: Illustration, Power User, Shapes, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Effects, Fill Format

Vector Math Shape: Dot- & Cross Product Fun

November 28, 2017 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

If you’re utilizing vector math for your graphics-related projects, this free download might help with your learning and understanding.

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Filed Under: Shapes

Stroke-Dasharray Shape for Visio Custom Line Patterns

October 11, 2017 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

Recent adventures with HTML, SVG and CSS have led me to create a new Visio SmartShape that will help you to easily define dash patterns for custom line patterns!

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Filed Under: Shapes, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Custom Line Patterns, Line Patterns, SmartShapes

Visio Circle Arrows 2013

December 29, 2016 By Visio Guy 22 Comments

There’s a new arrows-on-circle Visio SmartShape for you to download. It plays nicely with Visio 2013 and newer versions.

Come on in and check it out!

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Filed Under: Shapes, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Arrows, arrows on circle, Control Handles, Multi-shapes, Right-Click Actions, SmartShapes

Visio Viewer for iPad (and iPhone)

December 17, 2016 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

Now that we all have tablets and huge-screened smart phones strewn all over our homes and offices, looking at Visio diagrams while on-the-go or on-the-sofa is no longer a weird thing to want to do.

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, News, Shapes, Visio Viewer Tagged With: iOS, iPad, iPhone, viewer, Visio Viewer

Thoughts on Surface Dial and Visio

December 14, 2016 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

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Now that Microsoft has the new Surface Dial on offer, your non-mousehand will have something to fiddle with besides Ctrl + Z! What does it all mean?

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Filed Under: CAD, News, Power User

iPad Viewer for Visio by Nektony

August 31, 2016 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

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If you’ve ever been frustrated by trying to open a Visio attachment while browsing e-mails from your iPad on the couch, then you might be interested in this Visio viewer…for the iPad!

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, CAD, Data, News, Space Planning Tagged With: cloud, iPad, Layers, Shape Data, viewer

Visio Nerd Videos – For Developers!

July 14, 2016 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

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If you’re interested in the deeper workings of Visio, then you’ll be interested in a series of videos that I’ve been in remiss in reporting!

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Filed Under: Code, Data, Development, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Tools, Video Tagged With: John Goldsmith, Programming, shapeshe, ShapeSheet, ShapeSheet Formulas, ShapeSheet Functions

Truly “No-Glue-To” Shapes

July 12, 2016 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

no-glue-to-thumbSometimes you really need shapes that can’t be connected to. While Visio has settings in the UI for doing this, they don’t fully work. This article will show you the workaround!

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Filed Under: Electrical & Electronic, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Connectors, Glue, Settings, Visio Connectors

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