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Featured Articles

Über Rack Unit Dimension Line

April 19, 2016 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

new-rack-unit-dim-examples-4Find out how to use this new shape to measure and label individual rack units on network rack diagrams.

2016.05.23 – The full version and free trial are now available! [Read more…] about Über Rack Unit Dimension Line

Filed Under: Add-ins & Tools, Featured Articles, Network, Shapes Tagged With: Rack-units

Text on a Circle Visio Shape

May 9, 2014 By Visio Guy 65 Comments

text-on-a-circle-shape-thumbMany Visio users would like to create graphics with text running around a circle. I’ve come up with a third iteration to solving this problem.

This time, you get a single shape, with no need for VBA macro code!

[Read more…] about Text on a Circle Visio Shape

Filed Under: Add-ins & Tools, Featured Articles, Shapes Tagged With: Text on a Curve

Crayon Visio Network Shapes, Revisited

August 16, 2011 By Visio Guy 10 Comments

Looking at the number page views and download stats, the original Visio Crayon Network Shapes seem to be quite popular.

I’m happy to announce that they have been improved and extended! If you’re designing a new network or planning modifications to an existing network, these shapes are great for visually emphasizing that you are currently in the DESIGN STAGE ONLY, or this is JUST AN IDEA and that you don’t plan on working over the weekend to implement it just yet!

[Read more…] about Crayon Visio Network Shapes, Revisited

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Network Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Illustration, Images, SmartShapes

Radial Elements Tool

November 5, 2009 By Visio Guy 27 Comments

radial-elements-toolIf you create your own Visio shapes or make drawings that have elements arranged circularly, then you may have experienced frustration.

Visio has the tools to draw circular-arrays of objects, but learning to do it takes time. There are no direct “arrange stuff in circles” functions. You have to cleverly use other functionality to get the job done.

To make things easier for you and me, I invented the Radial Elements Tool solves some of these problems. With this tool, you can create circular arrays of customizable tick marks in seconds!

[Read more…] about Radial Elements Tool

Filed Under: Add-ins & Tools, Featured Articles, Shapes, Tools, Video

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!

[Read more…] about Automatic Chevron Process Shape

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

Need Network Shapes? Fill Your Cup at the Visio Cafe!

June 21, 2009 By Visio Guy 15 Comments

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Need 5000 FREE Visio network shapes? Or maybe just a couple of hundred? Well, if you do, you’ve come to the right place!

Today I’ll tell you about a wonderful resource for Visio network shapes called the Visio Cafe. They’ve got rack shapes, network shape, and auxiliary shapes that go along with network diagrams.

At last count, this site offers over 300MB of Visio networking madness, including 192 stencils which contain 4999 Visio network shapes. All of them for free!

[Read more…] about Need Network Shapes? Fill Your Cup at the Visio Cafe!

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Network, News Tagged With: visio stencils

Word Balloon Visio SmartShape

May 29, 2008 By Visio Guy 17 Comments

Read Full Article For quite some time now, I’ve wanted to create a Visio SmartShape of a proper, oval, comic-style Word Balloon shape.

But calculating the intersection of a triangular callout with the perimeter of an ellipse was too foreboding…

…UNTIL NOW!

[Read more…] about Word Balloon Visio SmartShape

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Humor, Illustration, Shapes

Oblique Connectors For Your 3D Diagrams

October 29, 2007 By Visio Guy 43 Comments

Read Full ArticleVisio network shapes have gone “3D”, but Visio connectors have decidedly not…

…unless you’re the guys behind the creation of the Zeus ZXTM Appliance Network Stencil. Several readers have noticed the cool isometric connectors that the KnowledgeHub guys used in their sample illustration, and want to get ‘hold of ’em.

We’re not sure where the KH folks got those connectors, but a little light bulb went * bing * inside our Visio Guy heads as we remembered yet another an unfinished prototype gathering dust on our HD. Ah yes, Oblique Connector.vsd, from long, long ago…

[Read more…] about Oblique Connectors For Your 3D Diagrams

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Network, Shapes Tagged With: Network, Right-Click Actions, Visio Connectors, Visio SmartShapes

Free Visio People Shapes

May 20, 2007 By Visio Guy 43 Comments

Free Visio People ShapesDo you need people shapes to spruce up those Org-charts, workflow diagrams, or marketing slides? Are you tired of Visio’s outdated or distracting-and-overly-3D shapes? Then you’ve come to the right place!

Today Visio Guy offers its own version of the The Human Form. A subtly shaded, Fisher-Price-looking, person-pawn for your downloading pleasure. And of course, they have a few extra smart features just to sweeten the deal…

[Read more…] about Free Visio People Shapes

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Shapes Tagged With: People, Visio SmartShapes

Map of World

April 23, 2007 By Visio Guy 58 Comments

Read Full ArticleWell, it’s been a while since any map-drawings have found their way to the Visio Guy blog-bits. And, judging by the messages I’ve been reading in the newsgroups, as well as personally receiving, there are a few more maps that you folks would like to see.

Since Mrs. Visio Guy and I are spending this year traveling around the world, it seemed appropriate that we offer up a map of the world for you to download!

So here we have it: in between hikes through rainforests, sky-diving adventures, and dolphin-watching tours, I’ve managed to produce a Visio drawing that shows all the countries of the world.

[Read more…] about Map of World

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Maps & Geography, Shapes Tagged With: Countries, Visio Maps, Visio SmartShapes, World

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