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Why Visio Shape Smarts Makes Your Life Easier

July 22, 2009 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

smart-geometryIt’s easy to use Visio and not notice some of the things that make it a great diagramming application.

One great feature is how shapes resize–or more aptly–how parts of shapes resize. If you’ve wondered about the term “SmartShapes”, this is an area where Visio shapes are truly smart.

So let’s take a visual tour and see how Visio SmartShapes do intelligent resizing that saves you time and improves your diagrams.

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Filed Under: Power User, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Parameterize, ShapeSheet, Smart Drawings

A SmartShape is Worth 1000 Symbols

September 22, 2008 By Visio Guy 9 Comments

The promise of the Visio SmartShape is that one single shape can replace an entire army of symbols.

With a little bit of parameterization, we can clear out the redundancy in our symbol libraries, thereby simplifying maintenance for our developers, and ease-of-use for our customers.

Today’s article will demonstrate just how Visio SmartShapes can do that, and we’ll teach you how to conjure up some of the behind-the-scenes magic that makes it happen!

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, Development, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Parameterize, ShapeSheet;SmartShapes

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