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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

“Follow the Money” Visio Sankey Diagram

October 26, 2009 By Visio Guy 12 Comments

Follow the Money Sankey Diagram ThumbIf you love Sankey Diagrams like me, you’ll be interested in how one Visio Guy reader created a very sophisticated flow using simple techniques.

He did it all in Visio, and the result is pretty impressive!

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Filed Under: Drawings, Sankey Diagrams Tagged With: Custom, Custom Line Patterns, Custom Patterns

Visio Tutorial: Advanced Fill Effects

September 9, 2009 By Visio Guy 12 Comments

advanced-fill-effectsWhile I was writing about the Visio Spectrum Shape the other day, I started thinking about the various ways that you could use this eyesore fabulous explosion of color in your own Visio SmartShapes.

While the spectrum offers a rainbow of tints, it only comes in one form: RECTANGLE. So what if you want to spice up some arrows, or circles, or…flowchart shapes?

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Filed Under: Illustration, Power User Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Custom Patterns, Fill Format, Gradient, Mask, Tutorial

Create Better-looking, More-efficient SmartShapes

August 9, 2008 By Visio Guy 10 Comments

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Attractive, realistic-looking Visio equipment shapes don’t have to be heavy and inefficient.

In this article, we’ll look at some innovative A/V equipment shapes from D-Tools that offer the win-win scenario of good-looking and light weight.

We’ll tear these SmartShapes apart and show how you can use custom line patterns and creative shadow techniques to add pizzazz to your shapes, without adding bloat!

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Filed Under: AV Equipment, Development Tagged With: A/V, Artistic Effects, Custom Patterns, Fill Format, Illustration, Power User, Shadows

Smart LineWeight: Bigger Shape, Thicker Lines

March 29, 2008 By Visio Guy 12 Comments

Smart LineWeight: Bigger Shape, Thicker LinesRecently we were introduced to the Cisco IP Telephone Shapes, and learned how they could be improved in the article: Making Shapes More Efficient: Using Fewer Shapes & Groups.

Today we’re going to focus on what happens when the Cisco shapes get resized, and discuss a technique for making the lineweight proportional to the size of the shape.

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Filed Under: Development, ShapeSheet Tagged With: A/V, Cisco, Code, Custom Line Patterns, Custom Patterns, ShapeSheet

Release the Power of Visio Custom Line Patterns

March 3, 2008 By Visio Guy 8 Comments

Read Full ArticleIf you have a need to create repeating graphical elements, then learning how to create custom line patterns in Visio is absolutely essential.

Visio custom line patterns offer a power and flexibility that will save time for both your end-users and your solution development effort. And your final product will have a refined and elegant look.

Recently, John Goldsmith of Visual Signals, UK posted two excellent articles about creating custom line patterns in Visio.

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Filed Under: Development, Illustration Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Custom Line Patterns, Custom Patterns, John Goldsmith, random, repeating shapes

Map of Germany

March 1, 2008 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

Read Full ArticleThe Geographic Map Shapes & Drawings are an extremely popular feature of this web-site. And since a lot of our readers speak German, or come from Germany, it seemed like this post was long overdue.

So today we present a map of Germany and it’s states–the Bundesländer–as they are called in German.

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Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Maps & Geography, Shapes Tagged With: Custom Patterns, Germany, Maps

Masking Images in Visio

July 29, 2007 By Visio Guy 10 Comments

Sure you can import bitmaps and images for use as Visio shapes. But imports are always rectangular, and they can have unappealing or distracting backgrounds that you’d rather not look at. While Visio doesn’t have a masking capability or an irregular-cropping feature, there is a technique that will allow you to get the same effect!

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Filed Under: Development Tagged With: Combining, Crop, Custom Patterns, Images, SmartShapes

Bubble Revision Shapes

November 4, 2006 By Visio Guy 62 Comments

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If you use Visio for CAD-like purposes, you might need to make revisions or “AS-BUILT” modifications to your drawings from time to time. Often this is shown by drawing a squiggly cloud, or bubble, around the portion of the drawing that has been modified.

I’ve created three shapes for doing this for you to download.

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Filed Under: CAD, Shapes Tagged With: Bubbles, CAD, Custom Line Patterns, Custom Patterns, Drawing Explorer

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