Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Matej — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:57:00 GMT

What version of Visio does include those shapes. I am using Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architects SP-2 (10.0.5110), but was unable to find them?

Can I download the stencil from the Web?

Thanks,
Matej

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Darren Neimke — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:11:00 GMT

That's the same question that I asked a week or so ago on your "Person shape blog" entry.

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Alexey Nichkov — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:56:00 GMT

All this shapes from Microsoft Office Visio 2003 (11.3216.5606 or higher).

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Darren Neimke — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:25:00 GMT

Right. So, is there any way to have them available in Visio E. nterprise for Architects (v 10.0.2705) ??

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Dennis v/d Stelt — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:34:00 GMT

"that aren’t exactly the ones seen in the MSDN article but work nicely."

Excuse me? The others aren't exactly the ones seen in the article, the folder and file icons look nothing alike! The file is flat and the folder is facing the other way.

Why doesn't Microsoft provide the icons? It's superb marketing for them, as everyone will notice them as those MS icons!

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Will Sullivan — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:15:00 GMT

Ever seen how many shapes are included in Visio? And most of them can be modified however you want. Tho, there are some times that I wish I could split up a shape into its component parts, but I'm blocked due to protections on the shape...

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Jeff Donnici — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:56:00 GMT

When I use the Shape Search for "document" or "folder", I don't get either of those shapes. I get the standard black/white line images and some specialized flowchart shapes. Mai-lan, do you know where your search is returning them from (locally versus the internet search). Thanks for this posting... I'm looking forward to Part 2 (and beyond!).

JD

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Chris Roth — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:11:00 GMT

Mai-lan,

A tip for your team - the shadows on the network shapes should be a transparent black, not a solid gray.

I've seen people using the pretty backgrounds with the net shapes. Depending on the color, the gray shadow can actually end up appearing bright!

On the other side, the transparency stuff doesn't seem to print as nicely on all printers...

Tschau!

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Mai-lan — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:32:00 GMT

Lots of questions from this post so I created a separate blog entry to address them at http://blogs.msdn.com/mailant/archive/2004/11/23/268612.aspx.

Thanks,
Mai-lan

re: Network Shapes and Auto-discovery Bundle for Visio 2003

Blogging on Visio — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:51:00 GMT

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

sandy — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:46:00 GMT

Do you know if I can get my "favorite" shapes file to open automatically in a Visio template?

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

sandy — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:49:00 GMT

...what I want to do is share my favorite shapes with others on my team !

re: Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 1)

Andy — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:17:00 GMT

I've found an easy way to get proper 'folder' shapes (like those used in the diagram above) in Visio 2003 - just search for the 'file server' shape, dd one to your document, then ungroup it and steal the folder part of the whole shape - voila, a decent folder icon. You can then ungroup the folder shape too if you like and set the line widths, colours etc to what you want.

This will work for the other server shapes too, eg. certificate server, ftp server, web server.

This may also work for previous versions of Visio, I'm not sure.

If anyone knows how to get the 'file' shape in a similiar way, please let us know.

Andy.

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