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Fill Format

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

Visio Wood Grain Fill Pattern

June 8, 2010 By Visio Guy 18 Comments

One of my customers asked me about wood-grain fill patterns for Visio.

I had thought that Visio shipped with some wood-grain custom patterns, but when I went looking, I didn’t find much.

So…

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Filed Under: CAD Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Custom Patterns, Fill Format

Visio Tutorial: Advanced Fill Effects

September 9, 2009 By Visio Guy 12 Comments

advanced-fill-effectsWhile I was writing about the Visio Spectrum Shape the other day, I started thinking about the various ways that you could use this eyesore fabulous explosion of color in your own Visio SmartShapes.

While the spectrum offers a rainbow of tints, it only comes in one form: RECTANGLE. So what if you want to spice up some arrows, or circles, or…flowchart shapes?

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Filed Under: Illustration, Power User Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Custom Patterns, Fill Format, Gradient, Mask, Tutorial

Automatic Chevron Process Shape

August 4, 2009 By Visio Guy 61 Comments

automatic-chevron-process-shapeIf you need a Visio shape that allows you to quickly create a chain of “chevron” arrows for your management presentations, then you have come to the right place! Our Visio SmartShape is jammed full of smart behaviors that save you a ton of time!

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Filed Under: Featured Articles, Shapes Tagged With: Auto Colors, Fill Format, Quick Text, repeating shapes, Right-Click Actions, SmartShapes

Flip the Switch, Feed the Creature

January 22, 2009 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

feed-the-creaturePeople really get excited about Visio when they see that SmartShapes can react visually to changing conditions.

Whether you change size or position, data stored with the shape, select a context menu item or double-click, a Visio shape can be built to show that something has changed.

A classic example of this is a simple rectangle that changes color when you extend it beyond a certain length…

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Filed Under: History, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Color, Fill Format, Hidden, IF statements, 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

Lens Flare & Highlight Shapes – Bling Bling!

April 6, 2008 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

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Welcome to this month’s issue of Pimp My Visio Shapes! (*cough*)

I’ve come up with some shapes that will allow you to add lighting effects such as lens flares, star-highlights, and other shininess-enhancing effects to your overdrawn Visio diagrams.

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Filed Under: Illustration, Shapes Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Fill Format, Gradient, shiny, Transparency

How Many Fill Colors Can You Put on a Visio Shape?

March 4, 2008 By Visio Guy 13 Comments

Read Full ArticleThe easy answer to this questions is: two. A single-shape can have two colors in its fill: a Fill Color and a Pattern Color.

If you want more, you have to group separate, differently-colored shapes together. In fact getting more colors is one of the major reasons that shapes become groups in the first place.

But if two were the actual answer, well, this article would over.

You see, Visio-Guy-friend Saveen Reddy has been up to his usual tricks of pushing Visio beyond the obvious and into the intriguing…

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Filed Under: Development, Illustration, Power User, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Fill Format, Gradient, Multi-shapes, Right-Click Actions, Smart Tags, SmartShapes, Themes

Off-center Radial Fill Effect

August 30, 2007 By Visio Guy 19 Comments

You may have noticed cool-looking, shiny ball shapes that pop-up now and again on Visio Guy. They have an attractive offset-radial fill effect, like the balls in the image on the left.

If you’ve played with Visio’s Fill Format dialog, you’ll know that good ol’ Fill Pattern Number 40 will give you a nice-looking radial fill, but there doesn’t seem to be a setting for getting it to be off-center. Well (once again) Visio Guy is here to show you how to work some black magic!

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Filed Under: Development, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: 3D, Artistic Effects, Combining Shapes, Fill Format, Formulas, Geometry, ShapeSheet, shiny, SmartShapes

The Hidden World of Visio Shapes

September 5, 2006 By Visio Guy 86 Comments

So you’ve created beautiful graphics in Visio, and you know how to add phantasmal ShapeSheet smarts to your shapes, now its time for you to make it all disappear! I often get asked how to toggle the visibility of various elements of Visio drawings, and I usually offer up one of many solutions. But I don’t think that those many solutions have ever been cataloged in a single place. Until, of course, now…

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Filed Under: Code, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Code, Crop, Fill Format, Geometry, Handles, Hidden, Layers, Programming, Right-Click Actions, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Text, Transparency

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