Making kick-ass Visio stencils

Posted by: andym

Making kick-ass Visio stencils - 21/08/2006 13:58

I'm currently doing some equipment rack (bay frame) diagrams for work using the standard rack unit stencils. The basic ones are pretty good but they're limited to IT bits and pieces. I've created some nice drawings which I'd like to turn into proper stencils (ie. the snap properly into the rack, show height in U's etc.), anyone care to point out some good resources to help?
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Making kick-ass Visio stencils - 21/08/2006 16:02

What's the file format for importing stencils?

The first thing I'd try is to see if I could export drawings from Corel Draw in the format that Visio would take.
Posted by: andym

Re: Making kick-ass Visio stencils - 21/08/2006 21:39

I've already created the drawings in Visio, it's just adding all the custom stuff like auto calculated rack dimensions and resizing rules that I want to do.

A bit more googling I think.
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Making kick-ass Visio stencils - 22/08/2006 00:11

Ah. Gotcha.
Posted by: frog51

googling - 23/08/2006 10:10

But remember - we aren't allowed to call it 'googling' any more...apparently
Posted by: andy

Re: googling - 23/08/2006 10:22

I'm just off to google for a photoshopped hoover...
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: googling - 23/08/2006 11:45

Quote:
I'm just off to google for a photoshopped hoover...


<groan> I need an aspirin...
Posted by: boxer

Re: googling - 23/08/2006 12:26

Every so often, I see a thread which means absolutely nothing to me. If we didn't have the owners meet where intelligent people explain things to me simply wothout sounding condescending, I'd be totally fogged!
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: googling - 23/08/2006 13:19

Well, in this thread, it degerated into random comments about how name brand items become "generic", losing their brand meaning. The verb - google started it. But the rest of the subtread all refer to various products that had been branded names or products at one time and became generic through standard use. Including "aspirin".
Posted by: andy

Re: googling - 23/08/2006 13:47

Although in the UK I have not come across aspirin being used in a generic way. People here tend to say "painkiller" or "headache pill".
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: googling - 23/08/2006 16:08

In the US, you hear people say "aspirin" for any painkiller, regardless of pharmaceutical content. So you might ask for an aspirin and get acetaminophen/paracetamol or ibuprofen.

On the other hand, the worst you'll get is a generic knockoff when you ask for heroin. The quality control isn't very good, though.
Posted by: pedrohoon

Re: googling - 23/08/2006 22:27

Here in Australia (WA at least), people tend to use Panadol as a generic name for painkillers.
Posted by: andym

Re: googling - 23/08/2006 23:26

Oh dear, every time I see unread items in this thread I think it's someone with a useful nugget of Visio information, when in actual fact it's just stuff about different names for painkillers.



Still no closer to making my stencils behave properly. They do look good though. So if anyone needs a stencil for a Sony DSR-1800AP or a Trilogy comms panel let me know.
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: googling - 24/08/2006 08:13

Sorry about the digression. Perhaps a kind admin can prune this subthread off to its own thread.

By the way, what did you draw your new components in? It might help the search. Thanks.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Making kick-ass Visio stencils - 24/08/2006 13:13

A Google search for creating visio stencils seems to have useful links, like Create your own custom stencils in Microsoft Visio.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: googling - 24/08/2006 13:14

Quote:
Perhaps a kind admin can prune this subthread off to its own thread.

The BBS tools don't seem to let me do that.