Long time no get on and easy stencil creator for Visio

Started by markem, May 19, 2016, 04:07:54 PM

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markem

Been a while since I have logged on to the forum.  I use Visio 2003 and still love it.  I also use Windows XP and still love it also. :-)

Anyway, wanted to stop by because I just found something and I'm not sure if anyone has ever posted about this web site. So let me give you some background - I draw fantasy maps. Not for a living but for friends who need a great map. Been doing this for over ten years now. It has been a royal pain in the rear (to say the least) to try to get all of the images and icons I wanted in to Visio.  So I found a site that had hundreds of icons and I was really depressed over it. I've already put in thousands of hours just using the image import which only allows you to do one image at a time.  So, in the vain attempt to find a way to even drag-n-drop images (Visio 2003 will not do this) I went out on the web looking.

And I found this website:

https://dmitryivanov.net/image-converter-for-visio/

Someone has finally invented a program that will convert images into Visio stencil sheets.  Not "one at a time" the old by-hand method. It does all of them at the same time.  I've already used it to convert about 500 images into their separate stencils.  I told the guy I just wanted to cry I was so relieved to find this program. It works like a charm too in doing other things. The guy only asks for donations and I plan on doing so when I get a few bucks together.

Anyway, I thought I'd post this here as I have no idea if this has ever been talked about before and this really makes making a stencil so easy it is ridiculous.

Have fun! :-)

PF4VisioGuy

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This is pretty cool for creating mind maps :-)
What is the difference between an image turned into vss and the same image pasted in the visio diagram (other than the convenience of having the image as a shape and not having to copy and paste the image every time)?

Well I take that back ..actually the program embedds POTrace and uses Inkscape to convert the images to vectors and adds some fatures to the stencil.
I wish I had this a few years back when I needed it :-)

Good work!

markem

It also cuts down on the overhead.  I tried it after creating a map by going back and re-creating the map. The new map was smaller in size (both in memory as well as on the hard drive). So it is helping with that problem.  :-)

Glad you like it! :-)

Paul Herber

The link to the above utility no longer works, so, due to a question asked recently on the SuperUser forum I'm writing a utility to do this. Should be ready for release on Monday ...
Electronic and Electrical engineering, business and software stencils for Visio -

https://www.paulherber.co.uk/

markem

Hey!  I had no idea it was not there anymore. Luckily for you - I have the ZIP file.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nub2x7exo48a8t2/AAC2MUfwCSl5lTmmxswFxyKsa?dl=0

Just follow the above link to DropBox.  Have fun! :-)

Mark

Notes:  I put the file in the wrong location. Now at right location. Enjoy!

Paul Herber

Well, I'd started work on it and now it's available:
http://www.paulherber.co.uk/visio-utilities3/

I hope somebody finds it useful.
Electronic and Electrical engineering, business and software stencils for Visio -

https://www.paulherber.co.uk/

markem

River making VBA:

I have, for a long time, wanted to make a river making VBA script. I know WHAT to do but I'm not that good with VBA. Basically, right now you can draw a line with the pen function. This draws a line line with data points. What I am thinking is to change this so it draws separate line chunks with each line chunk having a single start size and a single end size. This would make a river (or lava flow or whatever).

What do you think?

Paul Herber

It might be a good idea to start a new subject on this matter ...
Electronic and Electrical engineering, business and software stencils for Visio -

https://www.paulherber.co.uk/

Yacine

Quote from: markem on February 12, 2019, 02:12:16 AM
... wanted to make a river making VBA script. I know WHAT to do but I'm not that good with VBA. Basically, right now you can draw a line with the pen function. This draws a line line with data points. What I am thinking is to change this so it draws separate line chunks with each line chunk having a single start size and a single end size. This would make a river (or lava flow or whatever).
This makes me think of this post: http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=5585.15
Yacine

markem

Yeah, that was me. I just did a lot of research on this again and remembered why I stopped - You can not access the Ink property in Visio. You can use it in Visio - but they did not make it so you could edit/change what it did. That's why I stopped. Ugh. Forgot. Too many other things going on. Thanks for finding that. :-)