Just thinking out loud - maybe someone has a link to solutions, or wanted inspiration for a new VISIO project to play with.
From just moving things around and resizing to "fit", I've noticed that:
(A) Having a way to resize a shape and maintain its aspect ratio, without a lot shape-sheeting, would be a useful feature to have.
Resize to Xmm x Ymm, or by percent, with the original dimenions stored away somewhere so that they can be reverted to at any time.
(B) Sometimes when I've been playing around a lot, and I have either a lot of similar shapes, or various instances, some which have been edited, and some not, it would be useful to be able to define a Name for the shape and have it show up in the Size & Position window.
(C) Simply scaling down a shape does not make it "center" well within a larger version of it. This requires "offset", which is a lot more difficult than it looks, mainly due to the convex portions of the shape. I've done it by hand, but there's a lot of copy-paste-rotate-copy-paste-overlap, snap-to-geometry, and manual alignment and trimming. Having a T-shape that can snap to a midpoint or geometry edge and have the "top" of the T be parallel to what it's being offset from would speed things up. Being able to automagically trim the overhang off of intersecting lines would be wicked helpful as well.
* I also noticed that when I resized a connector, it extended in one direction, whereas in older versions of VISIO, it would stay put and extend from the center. Is this a shape behaviour than can be turned on / reverted to, or is that gone?
(I'm using 2007)
