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Draw the Virus with Boolean Operations!

April 16, 2020 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

I wanted to share some tips about using Visio’s Boolean operations, and came up with this topical subject to do it!

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Filed Under: Development, Illustration, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Visio 2016 Tagged With: boolean, Combining, Combining Shapes, Creating Shapes, Drawing Shapes, fragment, Join, Union Shapes

SmartShape Tutorial: Fading Trees

December 3, 2007 By Visio Guy 12 Comments

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Today’s post, like the Visio Guy web-site, is all about creating smart graphics.

We’re going to create an evergreen tree shape that fades as its size decreases. With this one single SmartShape you’ll be able to illustrate an entire forest-scene that fades into the mist. And you won’t have to format each tree individually.

You will learn how to cut Visio shapes into pieces and union the bits together to form new shapes. You’ll learn how to add parameters to shapes, and fill them with Excel-like ShapeSheet formulas create sophisticated graphical behavior. And you’ll create a context menu that resets the shape with a click of the mouse.

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Filed Under: Illustration, Seasonal, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Combining, Formulas, Geometry, Right-Click Actions, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Transparency, User-defined Cells, Winter

Masking Images in Visio

July 29, 2007 By Visio Guy 10 Comments

Sure you can import bitmaps and images for use as Visio shapes. But imports are always rectangular, and they can have unappealing or distracting backgrounds that you’d rather not look at. While Visio doesn’t have a masking capability or an irregular-cropping feature, there is a technique that will allow you to get the same effect!

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Filed Under: Development Tagged With: Combining, Crop, Custom Patterns, Images, SmartShapes

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