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Link Fields to Subshape Text

February 14, 2018 By Visio Guy 18 Comments

Many Visio users discover how to insert fields into the text of Visio shapes to display data contained in Shape Data fields. But they become frustrated when they add multiple text blocks to grouped shapes, as the process becomes more tricky. Let’s take a look at how to do this!

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Filed Under: Power User, ShapeSheet, Visio 2010, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Data Graphics, Insert Field, Text

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

Title Blocks #1: How to Display Existing Document Information

October 21, 2008 By Visio Guy 34 Comments

Title blocks on drawings are important for many, many reasons.

If your company has created more than a small number of drawings, it’s useful to know who created them, when they were created, who updated the drawings, and when they were updated.

Often times, copies of a drawing are e-mailed or sent in printed form to customers, installers, contractors, builders, inspectors. For these recipients, contact information and drawing scale data can be of utmost importance.

As it turns out, much of the information that is imperative to title blocks is already in the drawing. Through Visio’s SmartShape features, it can automatically be extracted, eliminating the need to re-key it.

Other information that is not available by default can be entered in a central location, or extracted from existing data sources, then displayed by cleverly-constructed title block shapes.

This article is a first in a series on how you can use Visio’s built-in features, ShapeSheet capabilities and even automation code to make smart Title Block shapes that save you work.

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Filed Under: CAD, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Insert Field, Text, Title Blocks

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