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IKEA KALLAX Visio Elevation View Shape

September 15, 2020 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

If you need to plan your next furniture rearrangement, this elevation-view, scaled IKEA KALLAX Visio shape might help you get the job done!

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Filed Under: CAD, Shapes Tagged With: Furniture, Manufacturer, Shape Library

Visio 2D, 3D and Virtual Reality

April 27, 2018 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

You will soon be able to use Visio to create 3D scenes that you can walk through using mixed reality hardware!

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Filed Under: CAD, News, Visio 2016 Tagged With: 2D, 3D, Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality

Thoughts on Surface Dial and Visio

December 14, 2016 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

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Now that Microsoft has the new Surface Dial on offer, your non-mousehand will have something to fiddle with besides Ctrl + Z! What does it all mean?

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Filed Under: CAD, News, Power User

iPad Viewer for Visio by Nektony

August 31, 2016 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

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If you’ve ever been frustrated by trying to open a Visio attachment while browsing e-mails from your iPad on the couch, then you might be interested in this Visio viewer…for the iPad!

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, CAD, Data, News, Space Planning Tagged With: cloud, iPad, Layers, Shape Data, viewer

AutoCAD 2013 + Visio 2016 + Webcast July 12

July 6, 2016 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

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Sign up for a webcast about working adjacently with CAD and Visio 2016, and get the lowdown on the new support for AutoCAD 2013 formats.

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, CAD, News, Visio 2016 Tagged With: AutoCAD, David Parker, webcast

Simple Cabling Shape with Length Reporting

June 6, 2016 By Visio Guy 5 Comments

cable-thumbIf you use Visio to create scaled plan views that include electrical equipment, you may have a need to rough-out actual, to-scale cable paths–and even get accurate estimates as to how much cabling you’ll need. This article explores just how you can go about it!

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, CAD, Power User, Shapes, Visio Essentials Tagged With: cables, cabling, Insert Field, Text, text block, wiring

Visio 2013 CAD Import Fixed with SP1

February 28, 2014 By Visio Guy 14 Comments

visio-2013-sp1-autocad-3If you’ve been frustrated by the fuzziness of AutoCAD imports in Visio 2013 at high zoom levels, then you’ll be pleased to know that the issue has been fixed with SP1.

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Filed Under: CAD, Shapes, Visio 2013 Tagged With: AutoCAD

Simple House Ventilation Drawing

March 15, 2013 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

A recent browsing binge brought me to a simple illustration of a home ventilation system. I re-created it in Visio 2010, and decided to share it with you!

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Filed Under: CAD, Drawings

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

Draw Tangent Lines in Visio!

July 2, 2009 By Visio Guy 8 Comments

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While Visio is heavily used for flowcharting, network diagramming, org charting and other connected diagramming tasks, it also has a fair amount of capabilities that overlap the CAD arena.

One of the best-kept secrets in this area is the ability to draw tangent lines between two curves.

Today we’re going to expose the secret and show you how to do it!

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Filed Under: CAD, Power User, Video

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