Smart graphics for visual people
Learn about the development process involved in creating this spinning 3D Visio Earth Shape! Related posts: Visio Nerd Videos – For Developers! Circular Text Generator (version 2) New Book: Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016
AI just saved me a ton of effort and tedium in converting a fairly straight-forward mathematical expression into its ShapeSheet equivalent. I’ll briefly share the interesting details of my experience in this article! I was working on a (free!) shape that takes the form of a cuboid. Look for an article soon that distributes […] No related posts.
Download a "dual-mode" dimension line that can either display the length that it has been stretched to, or be set to a fixed size that you simply type into its text block! Related posts: Title Blocks #1: How to Display Existing Document Information Simple Cabling Shape with Length Reporting Extreme Scales in Visio
Read about and download this free monthly planning calendar that supports 1-5 columns, plus various configuration and formatting options. No related posts.
Use the shapes in this drawing to show your friends and family how 'missing square' illusions work! No related posts.
Download and dissect, examine, learn-from, and re-use this Visio re-creation of Munich's Central Bus Station directory map! No related posts.
Learn a little bit about two of my customers, the products they provide, and the work I do for them. If you're in the audio-visual systems business, this might be right up your alley! Related posts: Circular Text Generator (version 2) Radial Elements Tool
Readers have been requesting new features for v2 of the Radial Grid shape, so I’ve created a v3 for your shaping pleasure! More Connection Points! The main thing missing from the last version was connection points on all of the circles. If you’re a fan of the Radial Grid shapes (version 1, or version 2), […] Related posts: Visio Radial Grid v2 Visio Radial Grid Pixel Unit Dimension Line Shape
Download this free diagram and build your own Penrose tile arrangements, featuring Visio's 2D snapping feature! Related posts: Visio Art Page Twitter @WordCloud #Visio Text Outlines in Visio
If you need to plan your next furniture rearrangement, this elevation-view, scaled IKEA KALLAX Visio shape might help you get the job done! We’ve just been looking at changing our living room cabinetry so that we can hide away more bigger things than our trusty old BILLYs are capable of. When it comes to rearranging […] No related posts.
I've created an interesting visualization of "Moore's Law" doublings that was inspired by a documentary I saw on YouTube. Read about it, check out the visuals, and download the source Visio file and do whatever you want with it! No related posts.
Learn how to build shapes using Visio's boolean operations. We'll join, trim, union and combine simple shapes together to form a quick but effective illustration of a Coronavirus. We'll move shape pins and change their rotation point, and take a quick dive into the ShapeSheet as well. Finally, we'll destroy the virus with the fragment operation! Related posts: Extreme Scales in Visio How Many Fill…
Download these free Visio ERD shapes that have the look of Salesforce's Schemabuilder tool. Based upon Microsoft's orginal "Crow's Foot DB Notation" shapes, these shapes have nifty new features that should make them quite useful. Related posts: Visio Nerd Videos – For Developers! New Book: Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016 Fuzzy Shadow on Text Oddity
Quickly build indexed lists of boxes with these convenient "ordered list shapes". Set a starting index, and a step, and you're done! Related posts: Center-sizing Smart Shapes Connection Point Directions & Types Off-center Radial Fill Effect
Join me as I STRESS TEST Visio's drawing scale features and investigate what happens when you try to fit the Solar System on standard office paper! Related posts: Detect Drawing Units in the ShapeSheet How Big Is My Shape? Visio Nerd Videos – For Developers!