Anyone using Visio for network/IT diagrams will probably have used a cloud to represent a network. The standard 'WAN' shape is okay, but I prefer the look of the isometric connectors and 3D shapes. The could shapes are all 2D and ruin the appearance. Could an isometric cloud shape be produced?
Quote from: mark.murphy@asos.com on April 19, 2011, 12:22:47 PM
Anyone using Visio for network/IT diagrams will probably have used a cloud to represent a network. The standard 'WAN' shape is okay, but I prefer the look of the isometric connectors and 3D shapes. The could shapes are all 2D and ruin the appearance. Could an isometric cloud shape be produced?
very interesting challenge, I think the conventional billowing 2D cloud would look similar from any isometric perspective, for that reason I would suggest a cumulus, stratocumulus or even a cumulosnimbus version be most effective as they have flat bottoms. I could not imagine the cirrus or a regular stratus formations to be of any use in this regard.
cheers
simple way:
- Make an oval roughly 2X high 1X wide
- color fill and line same (blue perhaps
- copy and paste....spread around along an isometric (or 2:1 axis...not truly isometric...but close enough
- Make some ovals larger and smaller....(shades of blue perhaps)
- group them
- save to a stencil