Hello ya'll,
I'm new to VISIO and am using 2007. I finally broke down and purchased a copy. I usually use Adobe Acrobat PRO to do presentations but was encouraged to embrace VISIO because of the many other features that it has. The presentations I make look good when printed and don't look bad on screen until you zoom in and see the short comings of Acrobat to do these presentations. Normally what I do is take an existing drawing (converted from AutoCAD to PDF) by someone, and annotate it with misc. info. I'll also start from a blank PDF title block page, and develop what I'll call an "Pictogram".
I've been surfing the web and looking for resources. This seems to be by far the best. I've been over to Visio Cafe and seen some interesting stuff but this site is fantastic. I enjoy the sharing of thoughts, idea's and work...
Like Chris, I'm from the rainy Northwest as well (Tacoma Actually), but am originally from Germany, so his post below strikes a cord with me.
I'm Chris (aka: Visio Guy). I'm from (also rainy) Seattle, but have been living in Munich, Germany since 2003.
So far I've just been being a lounge lizard trying to absorb the information. I'm trying to create a title block at the moment, that resembles our companies standard AutoCAD title block. I'v tried using some of the Visio parts and pieces (sorry not yet conversant in the Visio Lingo yet) but am not getting the results I want on my 11 x 17 paper, at a 1 to 1 scale. It would appear that I'll have to resort to creating most of it from scratch.
I've been following along with the threads, and trying to get ideas on how I can apply what I've read with what I typically do (i.e present ideas and concepts for fire protection). I've read that Visio isn't a 3D program and while this particular section of the forum may not be the place for this tidbit, is it possible to write code to make a symbol that sat on top of another symbol, smart enough to "Move Back" and "Change Shape" so that it has the appearance of being 3D? I'm thinking about a cylinder valve with a gauge for example, where the gauge is facing forward, until the cylinder valve is rotated (where is changes shape), until it eventually disappears behind the valve?
Anyway..., some pointers on title blocks would be appreciated.
Regards,
Dan
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