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Old January 22nd, 2010, 09:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
swichman2210
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Default 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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Old January 22nd, 2010, 10:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
AlEdlund
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Default 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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Old January 22nd, 2010, 10:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
AlEdlund
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Default 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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