In Visio 2013 Visio makes sometimes relative formula in geometry section.
If you feel them not convinient, you can convert the formula to absolute formulas by saveing the drawing as Visio 2007 or old version and open again the saved drawing.
If you feel still not convient, you can directly convert the formulas with simple macro.
This is a macro to convert relative formulas to absolute formula.
Option Explicit
Sub Rel2AbsRows()
Dim shp As Visio.Shape
Dim Irow As Long
Dim Nrow As Long
Dim Igeo As Long
Dim Ngeo As Long
Set shp = ActiveWindow.Selection(1)
Ngeo = shp.GeometryCount - 1
If Ngeo < 0 Then Exit Sub
For Igeo = 0 To Ngeo
Nrow = shp.RowCount(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo) - 1
For Irow = 1 To Nrow
If shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, 1) = visTagRelMoveTo Then
shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, 1) = visTagMoveTo
ElseIf shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, Irow) = visTagRelLineTo Then
shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, Irow) = visTagLineTo
ElseIf shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, Irow) = visTagRelEllipticalArcTo Then
shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, Irow) = visTagEllipticalArcTo
End If
Next Irow
Next Igeo
End Sub
This is a macro to convert absplute formulas to relative.
Sub AbsRows2Rel()
Dim shp As Visio.Shape
Dim Irow As Long
Dim Nrow As Long
Dim Igeo As Long
Dim Ngeo As Long
Set shp = ActiveWindow.Selection(1)
Ngeo = shp.GeometryCount - 1
If Ngeo < 0 Then Exit Sub
For Igeo = 0 To Ngeo
Nrow = shp.RowCount(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo) - 1
For Irow = 1 To Nrow
If shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, 1) = visTagMoveTo Then
shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, 1) = visTagRelMoveTo
ElseIf shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, Irow) = visTagLineTo Then
shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, Irow) = visTagRelLineTo
ElseIf shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, Irow) = visTagEllipticalArcTo Then
shp.RowType(visSectionFirstComponent + Igeo, Irow) = visTagRelEllipticalArcTo
End If
Next Irow
Next Igeo
End Sub
However I think the best way is Visio has the menu to convert rel to abs or reverse.
