Comments on: Toggling Shapes in Visio: Special Deliverable #12 http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/ Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Mon, 20 May 2013 13:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: cpaddock http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-5698 cpaddock Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-5698 I’m embarassed to as this . . . how do I create brackets? I tried to using the draw tool, but that created 8 Geometries instead of 4, couldn’t tell what was what.

]]> By: cpaddock http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-5699 cpaddock Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-5699 Oh, if someone can point me i the right direction, I can be reached at paddock@gmail.com.

]]> By: Jon Ashley http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-9877 Jon Ashley Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-9877 Thanks for the tutorial Dan! At first I wondered while the shape wasn’t available for download, but when completing the tutorial took 5 minutes I realized why.

But the most valuable part of Visio shapes are the “connection points” that keep all the “arrows” connected to the “boxes,” and following the tutorial steps removes them.

Using the Visio stencil downloadable from jjg.net, I followed the tutorial but then added back in the connection points through the contextual menu “Insert Section > Connection points”.

The values that appear to work for the “continuation” shape are:
TOP Width*0.5 Height*1 0 in -1 in
BOTTOM Width*0.5 Height*0 0 in 1 in
LEFT Width*0 Height*0.5 1 in 0 in
RIGHT Width*1 Height*0.5 -1 in 0 in

Great stuff Dan.

]]> By: Dan Brown http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-9878 Dan Brown Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-9878 I’ve also posted a couple “Stupid Visio Tricks” to my blog. Check ‘em out at:

http://www.greenonions.com/index.php/index.php?cat=9

]]> By: Steven LeMay http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-9879 Steven LeMay Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-9879 This series is proving most useful Dan, thank you. I took this idea a small step further in order to use the User-defined Cell value to set various properties with an IF statement.

For example:
This statement will toggle the fill from solid to transparent
FillPattern – IF(User.IsSolid,1,0)

and this one will toggle the line colour from blue to grey
LineColor – IF(User.IsSolid,RGB(187,189,203),RGB(0,22,74))

This works perfectly for the properties of a combined shape but the limitation I quickly bumped into is that I can’t use the same User-defined Cell value across shapes in a group. I presume that there is a syntax that will allow this but I have been unable to figure it out. Any thoughts?

]]> By: brownorama http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-9880 brownorama Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/toggling-shapes-in-visio-special-deliverable-12/#comment-9880 This page from the Visio reference at Microsoft.com is quite useful for understanding shape references:

http://tinyurl.com/3qcyb

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