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Old August 26th, 2008, 02:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
Paul
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.

Thanks.
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Old August 26th, 2008, 02:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
Paul Herber
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:15:45 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote:

Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.


select the shape(s)
menu Format - Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.


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Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/
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Old August 26th, 2008, 08:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
WapperDude
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

If you want to slave it to the width and/or height, then you can enter a
formula in the shapesheet. Go to line format section, and in the rounding
cell, you can enter a formula like =0.3*MIN(Width,Height). This will take
the lesser of the two dimensions and scale the rounding by factor of 0.3.

Enjoy!
Wapperdude



"Paul Herber" wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:15:45 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote:

Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.


select the shape(s)
menu Format - Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/

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Old August 29th, 2008, 05:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
Paul
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

On Aug 26, 9:30*am, Paul Herber
wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:15:45 -0700 (PDT), Paul

wrote:
Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? *I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. *Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.


select the shape(s)
menu Format - Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.


Hi, Paul,

The resulting menu shows a perfectly pointy corner. Even pressing
some of the rounded corners and clicking Apply doesn't round the
corner of the rectangle. Would your method be for lines/interconnects
rather than shapes/rectangles?
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Old August 29th, 2008, 05:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
Paul
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

On Aug 26, 3:38*pm, WapperDude
wrote:
If you want to slave it to the width and/or height, then you can enter a
formula in the shapesheet. *Go to line format section, and in the rounding
cell, you can enter a formula like =0.3*MIN(Width,Height). *This will take
the lesser of the two dimensions and scale the rounding by factor of 0.3.


Thanks, Wapper...unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the
rounding area to work.

"Paul Herber" wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:15:45 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote:


Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? *I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. *Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.


select the shape(s)
menu Format - Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics forVisio* * * *http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/- Hide quoted text -


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Old August 29th, 2008, 05:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
Paul Herber
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:30 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote:

On Aug 26, 9:30*am, Paul Herber
wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:15:45 -0700 (PDT), Paul

wrote:
Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? *I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. *Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.


select the shape(s)
menu Format - Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.


Hi, Paul,

The resulting menu shows a perfectly pointy corner. Even pressing
some of the rounded corners and clicking Apply doesn't round the
corner of the rectangle. Would your method be for lines/interconnects
rather than shapes/rectangles?


No, it seems to work on most shapes, I've just tried it on the PC
shape from the Computers and Monitors stencil. That looks rather
funny!


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Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/
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Old August 29th, 2008, 08:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
WapperDude
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

Both Paul H.'s and my method should work. Are you trying this on a rectangle
that you've already tried to alter? You might want to try a fresh shape.
Other than guarding the rounding, I'm not aware of any other protection that
might keep a normal rectangle from having rounded corners.

"Paul" wrote:

On Aug 26, 3:38 pm, WapperDude
wrote:
If you want to slave it to the width and/or height, then you can enter a
formula in the shapesheet. Go to line format section, and in the rounding
cell, you can enter a formula like =0.3*MIN(Width,Height). This will take
the lesser of the two dimensions and scale the rounding by factor of 0.3.


Thanks, Wapper...unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the
rounding area to work.

"Paul Herber" wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:15:45 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote:


Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.


select the shape(s)
menu Format - Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics forVisio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/- Hide quoted text -


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Old August 30th, 2008, 12:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
John... Visio MVP
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

"Paul" wrote in message
...
Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.

Thanks.



Since you refer to Geometry1, it appears you are within the shapesheet. Each
shape can have only one rounding value, so the value is stored in a seperate
Section called Line Format. The cell is the last one in the group and is
called Rounding. If you set the value to 5in for a 10in square, you will get
a circle.

John...

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Old September 2nd, 2008, 07:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
Paul
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

I looked at protection, too, from two avenues

1. Right click top item (file name) in Drawing Explorer, go to Protect
Document. All boxes unchecked. Check them all, click OK. Then
repeat, except uncheck all boxes.

2. In the diagram, Select All, Format-Protection. All boxes
unchecked. Check all boxes, click OK. Repeat, excpet uncheck all
boxes.

However, for a virgin blank document, the corner rounding buttons do
work. Very strange....

On Aug 29, 3:11*pm, WapperDude
wrote:
Both Paul H.'s and my method should work. *Are you trying this on a rectangle
that you've already tried to alter? *You might want to try a fresh shape. *
Other than guarding the rounding, I'm not aware of any other protection that
might keep a normal rectangle from having rounded corners.



"Paul" wrote:
On Aug 26, 3:38 pm, WapperDude
wrote:
If you want to slave it to the width and/or height, then you can enter a
formula in the shapesheet. *Go to line format section, and in the rounding
cell, you can enter a formula like =0.3*MIN(Width,Height). *This will take
the lesser of the two dimensions and scale the rounding by factor of 0.3.


Thanks, Wapper...unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the
rounding area to work.


"Paul Herber" wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:15:45 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote:


Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? *I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. *Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.


select the shape(s)
menu Format - Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics forVisio * * *http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/-Hide quoted text -


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Old September 2nd, 2008, 07:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
Paul
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Default Control radius of rounded corners

On Aug 30, 7:21*am, "John... Visio MVP"
wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message

...

Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? *I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. *Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.


Thanks.


Since you refer to Geometry1, it appears you are within the shapesheet. Each
shape can have only one rounding value, so the value is stored in a seperate
Section called Line Format. The cell is the last one in the group and is
called Rounding. If you set the value to 5in for a 10in square, you will get
a circle.


John,

What you say works with a fresh rectangle. However, it doesn't work
with shape File-Shapes-BlockDiagram-BasicShapes-RoundedRectangle.
The rounding is not affected either Format-Lines-RoundCorners, nor
Window-ShowShapeSheet-LineFormat-Rounding. Though this particular
shape doesn't have it, I noticed that the original shape that didn't
obey the rounding buttons had telling rows in the Geometry1 table --
basically, a series of alternating rows labelled "Arc To" and "Line
To". Perhaps this original shape has the rounding hard coded in as
Arc To parameters. That doesn't explain why the fresh
"RoundedRectangle" doesn't obey the rounding buttons.
 




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