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Visio Penrose Tile Shapes

October 2, 2020 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

I watched an interesting video about Penrose Patterns on Veritasium’s YouTube page this morning. It inspired me to create this fun Visio diagram!

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, Drawings, Drawings & Templates, Illustration, Shapes Tagged With: Fun, Geometry, Theory

Draw the Virus with Boolean Operations!

April 16, 2020 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

I wanted to share some tips about using Visio’s Boolean operations, and came up with this topical subject to do it!

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Filed Under: Development, Illustration, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Visio 2016 Tagged With: boolean, Combining, Combining Shapes, Creating Shapes, Drawing Shapes, fragment, Join, Union Shapes

Ordered List Shapes

March 30, 2020 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

I frequently have the need to get text into separate boxes in Visio. And often I need those boxes to have some sort of incremented series, such as 1, 2, 3, or A, B, C. I’ve built some SmartShapes to help ease my pain, and I’m sharing them with you today!

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Filed Under: Illustration, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Templates, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Download, free, Increment, Series, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes

Hex Snap & Glue Shapes

September 11, 2019 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

hex-pennies-thumb.pngI’ve created a few Visio SmartShapes that can be easily snapped and glued into hexagonal patterns! Check it out!

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Filed Under: Charts & Graphs, Drawings & Templates, Illustration, Maps & Geography, Shapes, Templates, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: 2D Glue, Glue, Hexagon, Right-Click Actions, Snap, Visio SmartShapes

Word Equation to Visio to SVG

February 1, 2019 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

I ran across a scenario where I needed to get a Word equation into Visio, and have it export to SVG. This is the story of my investigation.

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, Drawings, Illustration, Wireframes & IA Tagged With: Conversion, Equations, Math, Microsoft Word, SVG, XML

Fuzzy Shadow on Text Oddity

December 20, 2017 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

Visio 2013/16 and newer have added wonderful formatting effects. But how they modify your shapes can be a bit strange. I’ve figured out a few of the odd cases and would like to share my findings with you!

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Filed Under: Illustration, Power User, Shapes, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Effects, Fill Format

Text Outlines in Visio

March 1, 2015 By Visio Guy 6 Comments

TIf you’ve ever wondered how to convert text to paths or vectors in Visio, then this article is for you–although the solution might not be what you expected!

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Filed Under: Illustration, Power User, Shapes Tagged With: Geometry, Illustration, Text

Visio Keep Calm Template

September 6, 2012 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

You might have seen this poster around town, on the internet, or decorating a colleague’s belly. More likely you’ve seen a humorous variation–it seems to have developed into quite the meme as of late.

Maybe you have your own funny ideas, but have dreaded futzing with MS Paint to realize them? Well Keep Calm and Read On. It just got simpler!

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Filed Under: Humor, Illustration, Templates Tagged With: Right-Click Actions, Signs, Text

Illustrating a Hole in a Cylinder

August 13, 2012 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

Visio is a 2D drawing and diagramming application that doesn’t support 3D modeling functions. But if you like to draw and aren’t afraid of advanced functionality, you can create some decent affects and save the expense/learning curve of other programs.

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Filed Under: Business Process Modeling, Illustration Tagged With: 3D, Artistic Effects, boolean

Visio SmartFace

April 7, 2011 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

Visio People Shapes are very popular on this web site, and I just found an excuse to create some more!

Through the magic of Facebook and Twitter, I stumbled upon an interesting video from a very creative guy named Austin Kleon.

In the video, he shows us How to Draw Faces, using a humorously mathematical approach.

The technique translated quite well into a Visio SmartShape, which you can download here and use to add feeling and emotion to your diagrams!

[Read more…] about Visio SmartFace

Filed Under: Illustration, Shapes Tagged With: People, Right-Click Actions, SmartShapes, Visio SmartShapes

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