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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

Connection Point Directions & Types

October 12, 2006 By Visio Guy 15 Comments

Read Full Article How many of you remember waaay back to Visio 2000, when you could manipulate the type and direction of connection points via nifty UI handles? Well, that functionality was removed from Visio, but I’ve created a free tool that will give it back to you! Using a custom master shape and Visual Basic for Applications code, you can quickly get your 2D connection points in order!

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Filed Under: Shapes, ShapeSheet, Tools Tagged With: Connection Points, Handles, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Snap, Tools

Counting Geometry Sections

October 4, 2006 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

Read Full ArticleDavid Parker from over at bVisual stole the Viso Freak Crown with this newsgroup post a few days ago. His answer solves the problem of how to count the number Geometry Sections in the ShapeSheet, and it uses a really loooooooong ShapeSheet formula!

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

Casting Units in Visio’s ShapeSheet

October 3, 2006 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

Read Full ArticleIf you work with different systems of units, you may have a need to convert ShapeSheet values to different units, without changing values. But when you Show Values in the ShapeSheet how can you specify exactly which units to use?

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

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…

[Read more…] about The Hidden World of Visio Shapes

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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