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Visio Snowflake Generator

November 2, 2006 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

Image of Visio Guy with snow on headWell folks, it’s snowing here at Visio Guy Headquarters in Munich! So I guess it’s time to start thinking winter after all. And that’s just what this article and download are all about: Winter! Visio and Winter! Visio and Winter and Snowflakes!

So let’s forget about BPM, Org Charts and Network Diagrams for a while, and hark back to the winters of our youth, when we’d busily be folding paper and cutting away triangular bits, in the mad pursuit to decorate our windows with paper snowflakes.

I’ve coddled together a little tutorial that shows you how to use Visio’s Fragment, Union, Combine and Trim functions to create snowflakes — “ just like you did back in kindergarten! And the download contains some Visual Basic for Applications code to help you “do the unfolding” automatically!

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Filed Under: Code, Seasonal, Shapes Tagged With: Code, Cutting, Programming, Size & Position, Snowflakes, Winter

Smart Chamfer – A Corner That Doesn’t Stretch

October 24, 2006 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

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ECB asked in a recent newsgroup post:

“How can I make a 45° corner that maintains 45° when the shape resizes?”

Such a shape would be useful, for say, creating a “Document” shape. It’s also the type of thing that the CAD-oriented folks might like to create, only they would call it a “chamfer”.

In this article, we’ll show you how to create such a shape with Visio’s drawing tools, and to add the special behavior using Visio’s ShapeSheet interface.

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Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Cutting, Drawing, Geometry, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes

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