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How do I move the endpoints location on a 1D shape.
How do I move the endpoints location on a 1D shape.
Background I am running Visio 2007 I am creating a stencil consisting of equipment rack, shelves and cards. The rack is a 2D shape with connector points on each of the mounting locations. The shelf is a 1D object with connector points at the top/bottom points that correspond to the left edge of a card slot. The card will be a 1D object. For reference purposes, visualize the shelf a a square. As a 1D object, the shelf needs to have the endpoints along the bottom of shape. With the mounting points on the bottom of the shelf, when I move a shelf from the stencil, it will glue itself to the mounting position in the shelf. The problem is that when you create a shape, the endpoints are in the middle, of the vertical axis of the shape. This way when I drag the shape out of the stencil it will be represented as a horizontal line that I can drop onto the rack mounting point. Correspondingly, the card shape needs to have the endpoints on the left hand side of the shape with the start point at the top left hand position and the end point at the bottom left hand position. This way when I drag the shape out of the stencil it will be represented as a vertical line that I can drop into a card slot. I know this can be done. I have seen shapes with setup this way. A good example is the shape Horizontal baseline in the stencil File-Shapes-Visio Extras-Dimensioning-Engineering (US Units) So my requests a - how do I move the 1D endpoints down on a shape - how do I change the orientation of the of the endpoints from horizontal to vertical on a 1D shape with the start point at the to left of the shape. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. |
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How do I move the endpoints location on a 1D shape.
I found when I was doing it that it worked best for me to uses custom
stencils, with modified masters. Part of the modification was to go in and manually name the connection points for ports (a single point), slots (tuples), and a special case port which I called a connection. Each of the connection point names then used a format of 'type_name_mod', where type was either "port, slot, or conn" (underscores as delimiters). For slots the format was "slot_name_side" with the side being 1 or 2. 1 was either left or bottom and 2 was either the right side or top. Some vendor master shapes only came in horizontal versions and I had to modify the shape as a vertical shape. The last part of this video shows how it might be applied http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVMpOKmsZVQ al "swichman2210" wrote in message ... How do I move the endpoints location on a 1D shape. Background I am running Visio 2007 I am creating a stencil consisting of equipment rack, shelves and cards. The rack is a 2D shape with connector points on each of the mounting locations. The shelf is a 1D object with connector points at the top/bottom points that correspond to the left edge of a card slot. The card will be a 1D object. For reference purposes, visualize the shelf a a square. As a 1D object, the shelf needs to have the endpoints along the bottom of shape. With the mounting points on the bottom of the shelf, when I move a shelf from the stencil, it will glue itself to the mounting position in the shelf. The problem is that when you create a shape, the endpoints are in the middle, of the vertical axis of the shape. This way when I drag the shape out of the stencil it will be represented as a horizontal line that I can drop onto the rack mounting point. Correspondingly, the card shape needs to have the endpoints on the left hand side of the shape with the start point at the top left hand position and the end point at the bottom left hand position. This way when I drag the shape out of the stencil it will be represented as a vertical line that I can drop into a card slot. I know this can be done. I have seen shapes with setup this way. A good example is the shape Horizontal baseline in the stencil File-Shapes-Visio Extras-Dimensioning-Engineering (US Units) So my requests a - how do I move the 1D endpoints down on a shape - how do I change the orientation of the of the endpoints from horizontal to vertical on a 1D shape with the start point at the to left of the shape. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. |
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How do I move the endpoints location on a 1D shape.
apologies, I intended to mention David Parker's great book which has some
examples in it on how you can use the generic racks and automate their diagramming http://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-In...4195836&sr=1-1 al "AlEdlund" wrote in message ... I found when I was doing it that it worked best for me to uses custom stencils, with modified masters. Part of the modification was to go in and manually name the connection points for ports (a single point), slots (tuples), and a special case port which I called a connection. Each of the connection point names then used a format of 'type_name_mod', where type was either "port, slot, or conn" (underscores as delimiters). For slots the format was "slot_name_side" with the side being 1 or 2. 1 was either left or bottom and 2 was either the right side or top. Some vendor master shapes only came in horizontal versions and I had to modify the shape as a vertical shape. The last part of this video shows how it might be applied http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVMpOKmsZVQ al "swichman2210" wrote in message ... How do I move the endpoints location on a 1D shape. Background I am running Visio 2007 I am creating a stencil consisting of equipment rack, shelves and cards. The rack is a 2D shape with connector points on each of the mounting locations. The shelf is a 1D object with connector points at the top/bottom points that correspond to the left edge of a card slot. The card will be a 1D object. For reference purposes, visualize the shelf a a square. As a 1D object, the shelf needs to have the endpoints along the bottom of shape. With the mounting points on the bottom of the shelf, when I move a shelf from the stencil, it will glue itself to the mounting position in the shelf. The problem is that when you create a shape, the endpoints are in the middle, of the vertical axis of the shape. This way when I drag the shape out of the stencil it will be represented as a horizontal line that I can drop onto the rack mounting point. Correspondingly, the card shape needs to have the endpoints on the left hand side of the shape with the start point at the top left hand position and the end point at the bottom left hand position. This way when I drag the shape out of the stencil it will be represented as a vertical line that I can drop into a card slot. I know this can be done. I have seen shapes with setup this way. A good example is the shape Horizontal baseline in the stencil File-Shapes-Visio Extras-Dimensioning-Engineering (US Units) So my requests a - how do I move the 1D endpoints down on a shape - how do I change the orientation of the of the endpoints from horizontal to vertical on a 1D shape with the start point at the to left of the shape. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. |
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