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Off-center Radial Fill Effect

August 30, 2007 By Visio Guy 18 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!

[Read more…] about Off-center Radial Fill Effect

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

Resize Text With Metafiles!

August 24, 2007 By Visio Guy 10 Comments

A common question from budding Visio SmartShape developers is: “How do I get my text to resize with the shape?” Well, there are a few typical responses to that question, but this article focuses on a very simple method that you can use for text that does not change. So if you’re building shapes with company logos, digital readouts, or something similar, then read on!

[Read more…] about Resize Text With Metafiles!

Filed Under: Power User, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Functions, Metafiles, ShapeSheet, Text

Text Resizing with ShapeSheet Formulas

August 21, 2007 By Visio Guy 32 Comments

We see quite often in Visio’s newsgroups the question; “how do I get my font size to change with the size of my shape?” We’ll tackle that issue with some nifty ShapeSheet formulas, and a bit of philosophizing. So pull up a chair and a warm cup of coffee…

[Read more…] about Text Resizing with ShapeSheet Formulas

Filed Under: Development, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Functions, ShapeSheet, Text

Map Distance Dimension Line

July 13, 2007 By Visio Guy 19 Comments

In this article, we share with you a dimension line SmartShape that can be calibrated to a scale on an imported image, and be subsequently used to measure distances in that space.

Since Visio is adept at importing images in a variety of formats, it can be a great time savings to start with an image as a background or basis for a diagram that you wish to produce. There are many scenarios where the imported art represents a scaled drawing, be it a map, a floor plan, or some other architectural drawing. [Read more…] about Map Distance Dimension Line

Filed Under: Add-ins & Tools, Maps & Geography, Shapes Tagged With: Dimension Lines, Formulas, Maps, Scale, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Tools

Month Math

July 10, 2007 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

An associate asked me the other day; “how do you add a number of months to a date?”

I thought this would be simple, because the ShapeSheet supports elapsed-time units in addition to date and time formats.

With elapsed-time, you can manipulate quantities of time, so the problem seemed fairly easy.

Well, not exactly… [Read more…] about Month Math

Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Calendar, Custom Properties, Formulas, Functions, Shape Data, ShapeSheet

User-defined ShapeSheet Functions in Visio 2007

January 1, 2007 By Visio Guy 11 Comments

Happy New Year 2007 Visio Fans!

Not only does the new year bring hope, rebirth, and a chance to start anew, but also a new version of Visio. Yes folks, Visio 2007 will soon be on the shelves, and beneath the shrink-wrap and behind the registration cards you’ll find an exciting new feature for ShapeSheet developers: the ability to define your own ShapeSheet functions!

By defining your own functions, you can really reduce the clutter and repeated effort that can occur with complicated ShapeSheet functions.

[Read more…] about User-defined ShapeSheet Functions in Visio 2007

Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Functions, ShapeSheet

Constraining Angle with the BOUND ShapeSheet Function

December 14, 2006 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

Cori who writes the blog Elliptical… wrote this nice little piece on constraining a shape’s angle so that it can only be rotated in 90-degree increments. I thought I’d relay the information to you here, and explain a bit more about the BOUND ShapeSheet function.

Although you can use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+R and Ctrl+L to rotate shapes in 90-degree increments clockwise and counterclockwise, this does nothing to actually constrain the allowable values.

[Read more…] about Constraining Angle with the BOUND ShapeSheet Function

Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Functions, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Text

Visio Advent Calendar

December 1, 2006 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

Read Full ArticleDecember is here and Christmas is near! What better way to celebrate than with your very own Visio Advent Calendar!

I’ve created a Visio file that’s full of all sorts of goodies. Just open the file every day from now until December 25th and you’ll get a new visual, Visio treat!

[Read more…] about Visio Advent Calendar

Filed Under: Seasonal, Shapes Tagged With: Calendars, Christmas, Formulas, Right-Click Actions, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Winter

Polyline Shape Maker

November 27, 2006 By Visio Guy 8 Comments

Sometimes your Visio SmartShapes can be like beauty pageant contestants: they just need to look good, but don’t need a lot of intelligence. The creators of Visio realized this (after five versions) and gave us a way to streamline lots of “dumb” vector data. The ShapeSheet function: POLYLINE and the geomettry row: PolyLineTo will help you get the job done.

[Read more…] about Polyline Shape Maker

Filed Under: Code, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Code, Formulas, Functions, Geometry, Polygon, Polyline, Programming, ShapeSheet, Tools

Legend Shapes

November 20, 2006 By Visio Guy 37 Comments

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If you’ve seen Visio 2003’s Legend shape, you know that it is very, very cool. It tallies the number of times that various masters have been dropped on the page.

But how do you enable your own shapes to work with it? That, my friends, is the subject of this post!

[Read more…] about Legend Shapes

Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Legend, Master, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes

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