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CD Jewel Case Template

November 1, 2006 By Visio Guy 19 Comments

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If you just went out and bought yourself a color laser printer, like I did, then you might be itching to create a bunch of CD Jewel Cases in living color!

And since you’re already a Visio pro, there’s no sense in installing and learning another application, because you can download a Visio CD Jewel Case Template right here!

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Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Shapes Tagged With: CD Jewel Case, Crop, Non-printing, SmartShapes, Templates, Text

Map of Asia & Australia

October 31, 2006 By Visio Guy 16 Comments

Read Full ArticleNia hao ma and g’day mates! This week, we’ve got a Map of Asia & Australia for you to download. This complements the Map of North America, Map of Europe, and Map of Central & South America that we’ve offered you earlier.

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Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Maps & Geography, Shapes Tagged With: Asia, Australia, Countries, Maps, SmartShapes

Smart Chamfer – A Corner That Doesn’t Stretch

October 24, 2006 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

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ECB asked in a recent newsgroup post:

“How can I make a 45° corner that maintains 45° when the shape resizes?”

Such a shape would be useful, for say, creating a “Document” shape. It’s also the type of thing that the CAD-oriented folks might like to create, only they would call it a “chamfer”.

In this article, we’ll show you how to create such a shape with Visio’s drawing tools, and to add the special behavior using Visio’s ShapeSheet interface.

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Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Cutting, Drawing, Geometry, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes

Spiral Shape Maker

October 19, 2006 By Visio Guy 29 Comments

Ever need a spiral shape? I just found one buried on my hard-drive — something I whipped up years ago, and modified last year. You can download it here.

The download consists of one Visio drawing file (.vsd). This file contains VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macro-code that generates the spirals. You’ll need to allow this code to run in order to create spirals.

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Filed Under: Shapes, Tools Tagged With: Functions, Programming, SmartShapes, Spirals

Marketing Pyramid Shapes

October 16, 2006 By Visio Guy 12 Comments

Read Full ArticleWe’ve got more New & Improved Visio SmartShapes for you today! Today’s download contains the new flavors of the marketing shapes: Triangle & 3-D pyramid. The new shapes allow you to show up to 10 or 20 levels, have improved usability and automatic coloring.

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Filed Under: Shapes Tagged With: Marketing, Multi-shapes, Pyramids, SmartShapes

Connection Point Directions & Types

October 12, 2006 By Visio Guy 15 Comments

Read Full Article How many of you remember waaay back to Visio 2000, when you could manipulate the type and direction of connection points via nifty UI handles? Well, that functionality was removed from Visio, but I’ve created a free tool that will give it back to you! Using a custom master shape and Visual Basic for Applications code, you can quickly get your 2D connection points in order!

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Filed Under: Shapes, ShapeSheet, Tools Tagged With: Connection Points, Handles, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Snap, Tools

Circular Multi-arrows

October 9, 2006 By Visio Guy 108 Comments

Circular Multi-arrowsVisio users have been requesting the ability to add more than five stinking arrows to the Circular Arrow shape. This shape, which comes with Visio, is found in Charts and Graphs > Marketing Diagrams stencil.

This article’s accompanying download offers an improved version of this shape. It allows you to add up to 20 arrows, automatically color them, and choose from 3 arrowhead styles!

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Filed Under: Featured Articles, Shapes Tagged With: Arrows, Auto Colors, Control Handles, Multi-shapes, Right-Click Actions, SmartShapes

Map of North America

September 22, 2006 By Visio Guy 19 Comments

A few weeks ago, I uploaded the map of Europe Visio diagram. This file provided convenient access to all the shapes of Europe, all neatly arranged relative to one another, living in harmony with peace and unity. Alle Menschen werden Brüder… Today we have the same pain-free (ie: no Shape Search) treatment for North America.

AND, we finally have a short post from the VisioGuy!

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Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Maps & Geography, Shapes Tagged With: Countries, Europe, Maps, SmartShapes

The Hidden World of Visio Shapes

September 5, 2006 By Visio Guy 86 Comments

So you’ve created beautiful graphics in Visio, and you know how to add phantasmal ShapeSheet smarts to your shapes, now its time for you to make it all disappear! I often get asked how to toggle the visibility of various elements of Visio drawings, and I usually offer up one of many solutions. But I don’t think that those many solutions have ever been cataloged in a single place. Until, of course, now…

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Filed Under: Code, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Code, Crop, Fill Format, Geometry, Handles, Hidden, Layers, Programming, Right-Click Actions, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Text, Transparency

Map of Europe

September 3, 2006 By Visio Guy 24 Comments

Every once in a while, folks ask about map shapes in Visio. Does Visio have countries and continents? Yes? Well, where on earth (pun intended) are they?

Visio has had map shapes for a long time, but it has become increasingly difficult to find them. First, some of the shapes got moved into the shape database. That means they are no longer in a stencil, but must be found by running a Shape Search. And we all know that search can be less than perfect at times.

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Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Maps & Geography, Shapes Tagged With: Countries, Europe, Maps, SmartShapes

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