Shape snap to other shape connection points

Started by Bob33S, January 18, 2019, 11:05:59 PM

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Bob33S

How do you make the connection point of a shape snap to the connection point of another shape?
For example, you can see this type of behavior in shapes like Racks and rack equipment.


wapperdude

Visio 2019 Pro

wapperdude

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Ah.  Just remembered this post...go to end.  Both Yacine and I have interesting examples.  http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=8042.msg34713

Here's updated version of my file.

A key point, and I don't remember the sequence, but a connection points type =out will glue to type = in, but type = in will not glue to an out...or it's the other way round.  The point being there is an ordered sequence.

...And 1 more key point.  When dragging a shape to be glued to another shape, place the mouse cursor near the connection point of interest before dragging.  This helps Visio to focus on that connection point and improves the gluing process.

Visio 2019 Pro

Bob33S

Thanks, I see how that works.
But I still have a question.
I have attached a file with some stencils from CISCO.
Both the switch stencil and the module have all of the connection points set to Type/C 0.
The module still glues to the switch.
Why?

Paul Herber

Can't get to the stencils, I'm being asked to sign in to a MS account.
The module shape is 1 one-dimensional shape, even though it looks like two-dimensional. That makes it a connector (rather than a standard 2D shape) which act differently.

Electronic and Electrical engineering, business and software stencils for Visio -

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

Bob33S

1D shape, never thought of that.
I'll have to look into why the stencil would not open for you.

Thanks to all of you for the help.

Paul Herber

Are you using Visio Online?
Or are you saving documents/stencils in a cloud account?
Electronic and Electrical engineering, business and software stencils for Visio -

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

Bob33S

The directory is local but connected to a OneDrive account.

Bob33S

Yep, it is an OneDrive issue. The file that I thought was local is not.